Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they hit the beach and the dying begins anew, the fast talk quickly stops as Marvin begins to send his men, one by one, to blast a hole in the enemy wire. And one by one they die. It is a gruesome portrait of war, more horrible than the intellectualized horror of Apocalypse Now and more realistic than The Deer Hunter's chamber-spinning metaphor for horror. It more closely resembles Stanley Kubrick's evocation of the butchering sen-selessness of trench warfare in his anti-war film, Paths of Glory...
Today, more than ever, that border is a formidable and repelling obstacle, marked by a heavily fortified wire mesh fence 856 miles long. For nearly 20 years, it has stood as the means by which East Germany has effectively sealed off its 17 million people from the West. The fortifications have been progressively extended, and new security devices are constantly being added. TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs visited the West German side of the bristling barrier and flew a 40-mile surveillance mission in Army patrol helicopter...
...they hit the beach and the dying begins anew, the fast talk quickly stops as Marvin begins to send his men, one by one, to blast a hole in the enemy wire. And one by one they die. It is a gruesome portrait of war, more horrible than the intellectualized horror of Apocalypse Now and more realistic than The Deer Hunter's chamber-spinning metaphor for horror. It more closely resembles Stanley Kubrick's evocation of the butchering sen-selessness of trench warfare in his anti-war film, Paths of Glory...
...they hit the beach and the dying begins anew, the fast talk quickly stops as Marvin begins to send his men, one by one, to blast a hole in the enemy wire. And one by one they die. It is a gruesome portrait of war, more horrible than the intellectualized horror of Apocalypse Now and more realistic than The Deer Hunter's chamber-spinning metaphor for horror. It more closely resembles Stanley Kubrick's evocation of the butchering sen-selessness of trench warfare in his anti-war film, Paths of Glory...
Behind the barbed wire and chain-link fences at Fort McCoy, in the bucolic farm land of western Wisconsin, young Hispanic men have stripped off their shirts because of the sweltering summer heat. But when asked what the 5,000 Cuban refugees at the sprawling Army base need most, Tómas Rodriguez, president of their governing council, replies: "Warm clothing for the cold weather that is coming." Has he no hope, then, that most of them will be resettled before winter? "No," answers Rodriguez. "If we were to say yes, we would be fooling ourselves...