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...book traces the evolution of this "ideology of brutal frontal assault." His case studies range from the Greeks' destruction of a Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) to the U.S. victory (in strictly military terms: the author acknowledges the political defeat) over the Viet Cong's Tet offensive...
...January the North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive, taking the war from the country to the cities. Tet changed American attitudes towards the war that would continue to deteriorate...
...January the North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive, taking the war from the country to the cities. Tet changed American attitudes towards the war that would continue to deteriorate...
...arrival of Goran’s sister Elisabeth (Lisa Lindgren), fleeing her alcoholic husband, disrupts their uneasy routine. Soon, she stops shaving her underarms and questions why her daughter has pink sheets and her son blue. Meanwhile her son, Stefan (Sam Kessel), has introduced Anna’s son Tet (named for the Vietnam war offensive) to the joys of plastic toys. It is worth the price of admission alone to see this child, raised in a peace-loving commune, pretend to torture another child with electrodes—for fun—and it is a tribute to both...
...commune’s members force Elizabeth to question her routine, she forces them to question theirs. Would a television really be so terrible? Is children’s heroine Pippi Longstocking really a bourgeois capitalist? And if so, does it matter so much? By the time Stefan and Tet start picketing for hot dogs, we feel their pain: No one can live off of chickpeas forever. Elizabeth, with her cheesy music and relatively conventional wisdom, has forced her new friends to think not about what should make them happy, but what does make them happy. Perhaps her greatest influence...