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...feels the inner electricity again during the intense hours of refresher training that precede every jump. The sessions are like a football team's pregame warmup, insurance that the jumpers are sharp and ready, that in an inherently risky venture, risk will be held to a minimum. They trigger his adrenaline...
...been making for months. In text and delivery, he accomplished what he had set out to do: appear presidential, project a concern for all Americans, appeal to the moderates he must convince in order to win, reassure those who fear he may be too quick on the trigger...
...novice gangster who had idolized Ryan only to watch him waste his girlfriend, the grieving widow who now knew for sure that her lover had done in her man, the size 14 cop. And Ryan, he dies a death fit for a B-School hoodlum: "Alley Boy squeezed the trigger again and again and again and again. Tommy Ryan's body made stupid drunken lurches all over the table. He reached out a hand and grabbed a dinner platter and pulled it with him to the floor. The big lobster lay next to Tommy Ryan on the thick Persian...
...resources. The obstacles to such cooperation remain almost insurmountable. The London agreements of 1954 concerning West German sovereignty and membership in NATO forever precluded the acquisition of atomic weapons by Bonn, and Moscow has made it clear that it would never tolerate a West German finger on the nuclear trigger. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week reiterated a long-standing West German promise that "we are not a nuclear power, nor do we intend to become...
Fuller's dream movie has about it a mellowness that contrasts sharply with the brutal force of his earlier films, which often derived their power from the simple act of upending generic conventions-having the hero actually pull the trigger at the moment when normally he might be expected to holster his gun, or even fall into hysterics just when he was supposed to be most tightly controlled. Fuller is still doing this in Big Red, but in a much more benign way. In the movie, which traces the lives of four privates and their sergeant (Lee Marvin) from...