Word: actuallity
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...from the book is in its portrait of Leonidas' queen, Gorgo (who in Greek legend was also the daughter of the king's half-brother). Miller, mesmerized by battle and honor, had little interest in the queen; she appears in just a few panels. The movie, true to the actual Spartan tradition of emancipated womanhood, promotes Gorgo (played with a kind of stalwart sensuality by Headey) to a co-starring role, allowing her to take fatal revenge on a wicked politician who had sodomized her. In the book, Leonidas thought Sparta was always an ideal worth dying...
...culture accepting of the objectification of women; indeed, a culture where abstinence has no voice. A woman whose self-perception was entirely free from the curse of objectification would not stand to be spoken to in such a way. She would hardly dismiss such treatment as a manifestation of actual love...
...smoked and gum she chewed to stop smoking. The thing smelled awful; it smelled like a combination of menthol and some kind of chemical weapon,” recalls Pasternack. In a cruel example of Mother Nature not knowing what’s good for her, on the actual day of Pasternack’s show, rain dampened student turnout and forced them to throw out much of the trash art; this time it would not be resurrected...
...pulled our weights very equally throughout practices and going to these actual competitions, and I think our teamwork makes us greater than the sum of our abilities,” he said...
...undercuts the time-honored practice of retail politics: Presidential candidates had the time and incentive—particularly in small states—to get to know as many voters as they could on as personal a level as possible. Without a protracted process that allows candidates time to actually meet with members of the voting public, voters make less informed decisions, forced to rely on media soundbites instead of actual engagement with nominees. A drawn-out primary schedule also tempers disparities between campaigns’ war chests. With the old system, a lesser-known candidate had time to build...