Word: wounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Movies can turn a defeat into victory; you can achieve in fantasy what you didn't achieve in reality." Says Arthur Egendorf, a clinical psychologist and author of Healing from the War: Trauma and Transformation After Vietnam: "Rambo is an effort to deal with a complex, painful and deep wound with simple and sentimental responses. Part of the psychological potency of fairy tales such as these is that they dramatize our own inner struggles...
...late '70s, like Coming Home and Apocalypse Now, portrayed the war as a largely ignoble enterprise. "The subject matter was a risk," says Morrell. Such heavy Hollywood names as Martin Ritt, Sydney Pollack, Steve McQueen and John / Frankenheimer were involved in various efforts to film the novel. It finally wound up in the hands of two little-known producers, Andrew Vajna and Mario Kassar, who hired Stallone and raised the money to make the film...
...documentary that chronicles the creation of We Are the World, there is a general air of union and celebration, with Dylan hanging back from all the good-fellowship. Everyone is used to seeing Dylan as the selfexiled iconoclast, the hipster assassin, lurking darkly and waiting to wound. But here he seems different, like an expatriate who is not sure whether to travel on his own passport or sneak back into the country. He frets openly about performing his short solo. He needs coaching; he needs confidence. And when he brings it off, finally -- and beautifully -- he gets a hug from...
When rooming forms were due, Hurlbut I went its separate ways. Doyle and Doug Johnson wound up in Leverett, along with John Krusz, Mickey Maspons, Pete Mielach and Jeff Musselman...
...good move. The group, five of whom were varsity athletes, instinctively got along and--despite the loss of Doug, who left Harvard during sophomore year--wound up, by all accounts, one of the closest rooming groups anybody knows. "We honestly do everything together," says Doyle. In their large, cluttered common room, the television hardly ever stops, and the mayhem that surrounds it includes competition for the less-than-coveted "Asshole of the Month" award, whose previous winners are commemorated on one wall...