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...public eye altogether and becoming, as it is commonly said, the J.D. Salinger of movies. Out of the aforementioned trio, you certainly wouldn't have guessed that Malick would be the one directing seemingly every other male movie star in Hollywood in a big-scale World War II combat epic. The picture is The Thin Red Line, based on the James Jones novel about the battle of Guadalcanal. The cast includes George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, Bill Pullman and John Travolta. And they are only, with the exception of Penn, members...
From an audience's point of view, it will be interesting to see how Malick's meditative style meshes with the urgency of a combat tale. As it evolves on set, this is shaping up to be both the most ambitious war movie since Apocalypse Now and, potentially, the strangest. "It'll be Malick's Iliad," says Geisler with only slightly undue portentousness. A cast member says that the director, maybe sensing a roll, is already talking about an even more ambitious follow-up. Malick's Odyssey...
...combat spousal abuse when, for example, a man grows frustrated by his nagging wife and decides to beat her for being the bread-winner...
...binge drinking. While the "drinking culture" on campuses is a serious problem, it is indeed a "cultural" problem. As a counselor at a small public college in upstate New York, I see plenty of evidence of the seriousness of the problem, and we work hard on many levels to combat it. Colleges cannot, however, battle a cultural problem on their own. Students engaging in this type of self-destructive behavior often come with a lot of baggage. It is time we stopped expecting our educational institutions to fix everything that is broken in our society. Everyone bears responsibility. LORI OSTERHOUDT...
...Wednesday, combat-ready paratroopers lined the two blocks of Park Avenue in front of the school, stood with fixed bayonets on corners a block away in each direction... A jeep rolled through the barricade at 16th Street and Park Avenue, followed by an Army station wagon and another jeep. The Negroes piled out of the station wagon. Three platoons came on the double across the school grounds, deployed in strategic positions. Another platoon lined up on either side of the Negroes, escorted them inside the building... [Once there the] Negro children reported that they were well treated... During the noon...