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During the war, Colonel Thanh commanded four film-projection squads charged with showing movies to guerrillas living in the underground tunnels that crisscrossed the Cu Chi district of Vietnam. The motion-picture units were considered indispensable to the liberation effort, apparently because all war and no play made Charlie a very crabby combatant. Indeed, troops would sometimes demand to see a movie before they would consent to fight. Had the U.S. command known this, of course, it could have significantly altered the course of the war by buying up all the projectors carried by Saigon electronics stores, which was where...
Development of the appealing premise--the challenge of making someone invisible--is squandered in favor of a standard corrupt-government/secret-weapon story. In fact, the movie is often most interesting when we get a glimpse of the underground world Arnold has created, as he goes around collecting favors from the people he has helped disappear...
...today, over 200,000 cars a day crawl along the outdated expressway. Back below on street level, the honking of horns and the colorful shouts of angry drivers harmonize with the rumble and roar of the bulldozers, cement mixers and dump trucks beginning the construction of the proposed direct underground rail link between North and South Station...
...small portion of the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel project, known (not-so) affectionately to Bostonians as the Big Dig. Scheduled for completion by 2004, the Big Dig is arguably one of the most ambitious urban planning projects ever undertaken, headlined by the creation of eight lanes of new underground expressway to replace the existing artery and the construction of the now-complete third harbor tunnel connecting South Boston to Logan Airport. The depression of the Artery will also clear the way for 26 acres of open park space downtown...
...less disarmingly, a city where even the central Underground Atlanta mall posts "Rules of Etiquette" also unabashedly proclaims itself "a nude dancing mecca," where a single escort service lists more than 100 different options in the Yellow Pages, and the giveaway tourist guide, This Week Atlanta, offers boxed reviews of skin houses. Atlanta's strip joints do have their idiosyncrasies (they boast Internet addresses, atm machines and free valet parking, and one, on Corporate Boulevard, actually advertises "corporate atmosphere"), yet the unbroken lines of Girls-R-Fun clubs and joints presenting "250 Platinum Girls" throw some of the city...