Barrack(s) & Garrison

barrack



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–noun Usually, barracks. 

1. a building or group of buildings for lodging 

soldiers, 

esp. in garrison. (駐防地)



garrison

–noun 

1. a body of troops stationed 

in 

a fortified place. 



2. the place where such troops are stationed.

3. any military post, esp. a permanent one. 



–verb (used with object) 

4. to provide (a fort, town, etc.) with a garrison.

5. to occupy (a fort, post, station, etc.) with troops.

6. to put (troops) on duty in a fort, post, station, etc. 



 　

This material could have been glib and smug, but it isn't. There's some kind of pulse of sincerity beating below the glittering surface, and it may come from Mitchell's own life story. He was raised in Berlin as the son of the general in charge of the U.S. military garrison there. 



bunker

a [coal] bunker.  

to bunker an army's [defenses].  

redoubtable

redoubt

or Wolf's Lair, the Führer's woodland [redoubt]. 

billet

Howard Vernon plays Von Ebrennae, a cultured Nazi [officer] who is billeted in this [household]. 

barrack

All the callers-in want to do is barrack him [about] his support, started decades earlier, for Hindley's parole.

what with a barracks-full of dogfaces being [berated] by a vein-busting drill instructor who looks like R. Lee Ermey's country cousin. 

Pyrotechnic





2. any large, plain building in which many people are lodged.  



–verb (used with object), verb (used without object) 

3. to lodge in barracks.  





　

It was a [tag] that never left her: Pic is bookended by a sequence set in 1987, where Longford (eerily reincar-nated by Jim Broadbent) is trying to plug his latest book on a radio show. All the callers-in want to do is 



barrack him about his support, 



started decades earlier, for Hindley's parole. Sequence ends with Longford asked, "Do you regret it?" and auds have to wait until pic's end for his answer.