Word: soldierly
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...side there is no deployment at all to protect this precious region which floats on a sea of oil, the key to Iraq's treasury. A few trenches have been dug through the desert, where sheep amble peacefully under the watchful eye of haughty Bedouin women. There are some soldiers, but hardly enough to defend the crucial oil fields that burn brightly on the horizon. Along the highway from Basra to Baghdad, the army posts have been freshly whitewashed but are poorly fortified: the walls are low and there are just three men with a machine gun on guard...
...probably in bed with their teeth on the nightstand by the time Lahav takes the stage. At 2 a.m., Lahav wraps up a romantic song about making love in a jeep and leads the whole club in a chorus of another old Israeli favorite that goes: "I'm a soldier. Don't cry for me, Baby." For the past decade, Israelis felt they were leaving behind the pioneering days of Zionism, the movement that campaigned to found the Jewish state and create a strong character in its young people, all of whom had to serve in the army. The phrase...
...pall hangs over the realm of Rohan, where King Theoden (Bernard Hill) has been bewitched by the evil Saruman (Christopher Lee). Heroic Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) bands with a revived Gandalf to defend Rohan against Saruman's soldier-clones. But the film's true battle is between Frodo the Hobbit (Elijah Wood) and the great Ring in his care. Frodo can feel its power to sap and seduce. He can see it too in Gollum, a creepy creature who has been corrupted by having once possessed the Ring. Gollum's cringing present could be the Hobbit's future...
...Upholding Islamic Shari'a, denies that Laskar Jundullah, which sometimes acts on its behalf as an enforcer of Islamic purity, is involved in terrorism, and says it can't be held responsible for its worst elements. "It's like asking an army general to be responsible if a rogue soldier in his battalion breaks the rules," he says. When the foun-ders of the group them-selves are detained terrorists, the problem may be more than a matter of a few rogues...
...After graduation, classmate Chen Kaige hired him as cinematographer on Yellow Earth, the story of a young revolutionary soldier's sojourn in a drought-ravaged village along the Yellow River. Zhang's bold camera work earned the film international attention and ushered in a new wave of Chinese cinema. Together with Chen (who later went on to direct Farewell My Concubine) and classmates Tian Zhuangzhuang and Wu Tianming, Zhang became a star of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese directors. When he watches Yellow Earth now, Zhang says, he is embarrassed by the naked ambition of his cinematography...