Sentences with phrase «cold war battle»

In fact, the subtitle of the paperback version of this book is «The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game.»

Steven Spielberg's atmospheric drama stars Tom Hanks as an American lawyer who's drawn into a Cold War battle when he decides to defend a Russian spy.

In the mid 20th century, proxy cold war battles found fertile ground in the power vacuums of various African states emerging into «independence» after colonialism.

Not exact matches

What critics said: «In a summer movie landscape with Spider - Man, a simian army waging further battle for the planet and Charlize Theron as a sexy Cold War - era superspy, it says something that one of the most compelling characters is Al Gore.»

The Guardian: Peru university in Vatican battle over right to call itself Catholic The Vatican is locked in a bitter dispute with one of South America's top universities in a row that has resurrected ideological differences within the Catholic church long thought to have been consigned to cold war history.

For the net result of the revisionist / classicist battle over the origins of the Cold War was a strengthening of Harry Truman's posthumous claim to historical greatness — precisely the «myth» that the revisionists were most eager to debunk.

Media stereotyping of the people's movements, including the ecumenical movement, has been standard practice in the low - intensity battles of the cold - war era, particularly in the global market place, where communication is the major instrument of war.

They need to make it a battle and have every player channel their inner Provorov Cold War attitude.

And then there's «The Butter Battle Book», perhaps Seuss's most pointed parable, a take on the Cold War arms race that horrified this author as a child whose parents dared to tell him what the tale of bigger, crazier guns and differing philosophies was really about.

He is cold; hollow - eyed, a shadow of the star - spangled, optimistic do - gooder who battled the Red Skull to help end World War II.

Even the most upbeat song of the film, sung to absolute perfection by Justin Timberlake «s Jim and Adam Driver «s Al Cody, is a plea against America's fear of the uncertainty — the next battle against the Ruskos in a blossoming Cold War.

Opening with a surfing scene that recalls those Frankie and Annette beach blanket operas and featuring a para-surfing scene mid-film with the worst rear - projection since the same, Die Another Day locates our favourite British Cold War relic in North Korea, engaged in a hovercraft battle that is as uninspired as it sounds.

Pawn Sacrifice (Universal, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD) stars Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer and Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky in this dramatization of the chess match that became the focus of the world when it became a symbolic battle of minds in the Cold War.

by Walter Chaw For me, the James Bond films are the literalization of a very particular Conservative fantasy in which a suave, quippy, emotionally - arrested sociopath battles Cold War foes, beds beautiful women without consequence, always has the latest technology, and engages in the endless murder of foreigners.

In that latter category, suffice it to say that nobody still thought that this was the war to end all wars, particularly since victory in Europe and in the Far East simply segued into the Cold War as two allies, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, broke apart, competing for superiority on the athletic field and, grievously, in tense propaganda battlwar to end all wars, particularly since victory in Europe and in the Far East simply segued into the Cold War as two allies, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, broke apart, competing for superiority on the athletic field and, grievously, in tense propaganda battlWar as two allies, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, broke apart, competing for superiority on the athletic field and, grievously, in tense propaganda battles.

The U.S., Russia and China transitioned into a Cold War through a new system of battle (and control): information warfare.

The Cold War may be over, but the battle over school reform still rages.

He is the author of Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School.

This prequel included a Big Boss focused storyline, Cold War - era setting, and several exciting boss battles that required skill and patience to maneuver through.

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Wargame: AirLand Battle takes place between 1975 and 1985 — in the midst of the Cold War for all of you non-historians.

Based on an alternate history of the Cold War, «World in Conflict» is a fast - paced RTS in which NATO and Soviet forces battle over the West Coast of America.

Hall, James, The Battle for Realism — Figurative Art in Britain during the Cold War 1945 — 1960, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001

Not only might such knowledge be crucial in future battles, but scientific progress could bring a nation prestige in the Cold War competition.