Word: aldrich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Lutupen came the mule, Miss Mule, policed by another Samburu warrior named (it is true) Livingston. After Miss Mule at a cautious distance marched Toad and friends -- the guide Chrissie Aldrich, the Kitich Camp manager Ian Cameron and the others. And last, the ten donkeys that carried water and food (short rations that got shorter as the days passed and the wild walking grew more wonderful). The donkeys advanced along the trail like a party of schoolgirls in dove-gray uniforms, sociable and disorderly, the sheer din of their progress driving off elephants and lions and all other wilder...
...Green upped its lead to 3-0 less than a minute into the second period when senior Betsy Aldrich took advantage of a tactical error by Harvard Tri-Captain and goalie Jen White. Instead of falling on the puck after a shot attempt, White quickly flicked it out to the side without seeing Aldrich, who proceeded to knock it back...
After graduating from Yale, Bush succumbed to an itch of the Eastern privileged that Nelson Aldrich has recently described in his book Old Money -- the Teddy Roosevelt yearning to go West and do something physical. Bush presented the matter to himself less as an opportunity than an ordeal -- he thought first of farming, and only then of physical work in oil fields. It was a way of continuing the effete cure on a grander scale; the ironic thing in Bush's case is that the cure would just confirm, in some people's eyes, the ailment. Luckily, Bush had enough...
John Hall has been a cattle rancher on the Laikipia Plateau for 23 years. The safari guide, Chrissie Aldrich, brought the visitor up from Nanyuki to Hall's Enasoit Ranch. Hall's neighbors regard him as an eccentric because he gives the wild animals the free run of his ranch. At one time, he and his wife Thelma had a large lovely garden in their front yard, but the elephants systematically demolished it. Hall says cheerfully that he decided to enjoy watching the elephants instead of watching his flowers...
Though Platoon is a breakthrough, it is not a breakaway. The film is traditional enough to connect with a mass audience. In its story line it holds echoes of Attack!, Robert Aldrich's 1956 psychodrama, in which a World War II infantry company is torn by a mortal struggle between two officers -- one messianic, the other deranged -- while a young man's loyalty hangs in the balance. Platoon's narration, in the form of Chris' letters to his grandmother, is often as stilted and redundant as silent-movie title cards. When a naive new boy shows Chris a photo...