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...exhibition in England to which Banksy contributed. But that doesn't necessarily mean being unmasked would hurt Banksy's popularity. The intrigue over his identity has been a "double-edged sword," Alonzo says, since it has occluded the messages bundled in his art. "His work is a call to action. It's about hierarchies of power, social injustice and paying attention to issues that aren't being addressed," he adds. "There could be a bright side to this - the attention being diverted from his identity [could allow] people to really look at his work and consider it." Says Williams...
...name of faith.'' During the reign of Charlemagne in the 8th century, heathens were executed for refusing baptism. Beginning in the 11th century, Crusaders trying to drive Arabs out of the Holy Land committed countless atrocities. Shortly after Columbus made his first trip, the Spanish Inquisition began taking action against Jews and, later, Muslims. In 1637 the Pequot Indian tribe was murdered by Massachusetts militiamen who called themselves ''faithful followers of Jesus Christ.'' After the Spanish-American War, American soldiers chased down Filipino rebels and burned their villages because the U.S. claimed the right to Christianize them. Today Christian Serbs...
...granted near saintly status. Sheen gives us the dark side of the holy warrior, a man of courtly manners who is possessed by a vision of a vainglorious, straight-ahead assault on the enemy's center -- the vision that produced Pickett's disastrous charge. It was a course of action that defied reason (personified here by Lieutenant General James Longstreet, who is underwritten and underplayed by Tom Berenger). Lee's opposite number in the film's dramatic scheme is Colonel Chamberlain, commander of a ravaged regiment assigned to defend the Union flank on the hill known as Little Round...
...serious about reducing carbon emissions, we'll need a much larger renewable energy sector than the one we have - and that will mean bipartisan government action, in the form of carbon caps and subsidies that dwarf the miniscule tax credits now available. Our government's inability to cooperate and fund an invaluable energy program that costs less than a $1 billion a year is simply unreasonable - no matter what you think about global warming...
Occasionally I find stereotypes in action, as a middle-aged woman wearing a kimono is seated next to a young woman sporting blond hair, a short skirt, knee high socks and high heels. A pair of gentleman, who could only have been sumo wrestlers, also shared a train with me once. Judging from the amused reactions of those seated around me, I decided that this was an unusual sight...