Since the mid-1950s, a time when the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union was at its coldest and the threat of a third world war seemed to loom behind every crisis, the United States Army has deployed very highly trained commando/special warfare teams to Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, ...
College Prep in High School I went through the college prep track in high school. I also worked in the grape fields of central California in the early 1970’s, and I knew I was not cut out to be a farmhand. I did like being outdoors, but I had plenty of pruning and picking grapes ...
Errol Morris remains one of cinema’s best documentary filmmakers. However, despite his amazing back catalogue of true-life films, he remains absent from the Criterion Collection. That looks like it is about to change. IFC President Jonathan Sehring said in an interview that Criterion would plan on releasing a number of Morris’ films. Nothing has been ...
Steven Spielberg, the man behind blockbusters such as Jaws, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones franchise and Jurassic Park, has also made his share of Best Picture nominees. Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan both dealt with World War II, but his latest film, War Horse, takes moviegoers back to World War I. Based on ...
On December 16, 1944, elements of three German armies – 14 infantry and five panzer divisions in all – attacked part of the American First Army along an 80-mile front along Germany’s border with Belgium and Luxembourg. The sudden and unexpected counteroffensive hit the Americans in an area the Allies thought would be a nice, ...
My mother, sister and I would have special afternoons together in Connecticut when we went to the dentist’s office in downtown Hartford. We would all get on the city bus, arrive near the dentist’s office, and after our appointments would walk to G. Fox and Company and do a bit of Nancy Drew shopping on ...