Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a counterculture guru. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were friends, logically enough. But so was an unlikely battalion of bluebloods, millionaires and corporate executives, many of them so charmed by Einhorn's New Age vision that they stood by him even after his arrest for a murder so grisly an entire city had gasped...
...success. He had no inkling, growing up among the Ankole tribe in southwestern Uganda, he says, of the damage the British rulers of the country were doing. Born in 1944, he was named Museveni, meaning He of the Seven in honor of Ugandan soldiers who fought in the 7th battalion of the King's African Rifles during World War II. His father owned more than 50 cattle--wealth enough to send his children to school--and for 12 years the young Yoweri attended missionary schools that preached government service, not farming, as the path to success...
...those steamy summer weekends, when a battalion of bustling, big-budget Hollywood movies hits the theaters--and many of them tank. But don't feel sorry for those forlorn moguls. Just because a movie stumbles in the U.S. doesn't mean the rest of the world should be spared it. In fact, the voracious appetite for American celluloid in Europe, Asia and South America is turning many a domestic dog into a foreign blockbuster. Herewith a sampling of recent films that enjoyed just such overseas turnarounds...
...commemorate the deactivation of the last M*A*S*H base in Korea, the 43rd Surgical Hospital, which also happens to be the one on which the book, the movie and the TV show were based. "It was very, very un-Hollywood," says Gelbart. "The battalion band played the theme song and they cased the colors." But where were Klinger and Radar...
...Flinn case has enlarged the battalion of civilians who would like to meddle in the military's judicial system and its treatment of the sexes. Critics include those lambasting the adultery rules as too strict and the 119 House members co-sponsoring a bill banning mixed-sex basic training. In the end, it may be best to let the generals and admirals, exploring unknown territory, figure it out for themselves. Speaking in her personal capacity, Captain Rosemary Mariner, the Navy's first woman tactical-jet pilot and the first female commander of an aviation squadron, suggests that the approach seems...