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- From: sheppard@warthog.nas.nasa.gov (Douglas R. Sheppard)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: Q on A Few Good Men: Poison???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.184049.24162@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:40:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.083855.372@news.uwyo.edu>
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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- In article <1992Dec23.083855.372@news.uwyo.edu>, rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky) writes:
- |> Something that really bothered me about this film was the "poison"
- |> plot device. Were these two marines toxicologists or something?
- |> Where did they find this poison, or barring finding it, how did they
- |> get it transported to the base? How did they know what minimum dosage
- |> would be effective, etc.?
- |>
- |> Not that this movie didn't have its share of problems, but this
- |> "poison" thing was not addressed fully at the trial.
- |>
- |> Richard Travsky
- |> Division of Information Technology RTRAVSKY @ CORRAL.UWYO.EDU
- |> University of Wyoming (307) 766 - 3663 / 3668
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- It was my impression that there was no 'poison', that the private who
- died could have had a lung problem (or something like that). Cruise
- pointed this out in his questioning.
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