Thanks for all the info on "yob," but I still want to blame
czarist sailors on the docks in Liverpool and
Limehouse.
Miker, not so sludgy. That must be "Prufrock," as in Eliot's
"The Love Song of Alfred J. ..." and Archie and Mehitabel
(that was Eliot, wasn't it?), the cat and the typing
cockroach.
I agree with Jack that the scenes of the French in the movie
were invaluable. It was like a lightbulb going on: "Oh, so
THAT'S why!" And wasn't there a new sentence or two when
Sheen was receiving his orders in the trailer (with that
slimebag Harrison Ford character present), when the ranking
officer says the politicians are keeping the military from
doing their job? As for criticism of America---hey, we only
look bad compared with Mao's happy kingdom and Fidel's sugar
plantation. (Boy, does that show restraint.) No more politics
for me here.
Can military characters be considered hardboiled
(i.e., Patton, The Dirty Dozen, Andy McNab's Nick Stone)? Or
cowboys? How about the Indian bad-guy character (sorry, I
forget his name) in McMurtry's Lonesome Dove? I'd say not in
the same way because war and western fiction are whole other
genres.
Cheers,
Sally
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