Word: kits
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Even in the Ivy League, fans can be nutty. Princeton fans fill the arena when Kit Mueller and Company take the court. Penn fans throw confetti on the court after the Quakers score their first basket...
...Philmont trek provides a deceptively casual scenario for such transition. Changing history is evident in the area's visitors. Spanish conquistadores and American pioneers passed through. Trekkers carrying side arms have included Kit Carson and, more recently, eagle scout and FBI Director William Sessions, who brought along pistol-packing bodyguards. In recent years women have become active in the formerly all-male backcountry. Two of 501's adult leaders are female, as are 20 of Philmont's 185 rangers who hike for two days with each group to help launch the trip successfully. Environmental pressures are being felt as well...
...brochures apparently made the sale for him. Sometime later, Cardoen was contacted by Iraqi army officers, who were interested in one of the weapons listed in his sales kit: the cluster bomb, a destructive antipersonnel device that scatters tiny bomblets over a wide area. The weapon was ideal for Iraq's relatively unskilled air force, especially after Iran began attacking Iraqi positions with human waves of fanatical young fighters...
Some viewers, who believe movies should be easy and edifying, will say of Kit and Port: Such small people. But nearly all of Bertolucci's films, from Before the Revolution to The Conformist, from 1900 to The Last Emperor, are big canvases holding tiny, forlorn souls. Because of the performers' power, the Moresbys come alive onscreen as they never quite did in the book. Bertolucci looks at Malkovich, the lizardly eminence of Dangerous Liaisons, and thinks of Brando: "They are two monoliths, unchanging, absolutely still -- and, from the first moment, condemned." Winger, for too many years the great unused actress...
...horror of Sky is that at the end, you can see Kit's mind click off. The beauty of the film is that it ultimately locates a married couple's humanity in that horror...