Word: agincourt
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...that a victor aches with the torment of the defeated, recounts the terrible battle deaths of the slain, shows their widows and mothers keening in desolate, inconsolable grief. It is a kind of reverse Henry V, as if Shakespeare had set his play in France after the Battle of Agincourt, put his words in the mouths of the tiny remnant of once-proud French survivors, and evoked the pain in a French mother's heart...
...dark, waiting for the dawn to plunge its incongruous, unarmed infantry into some kind of crazy civil war battle. I stood and watched the scene, hoping like hell that this was the way things might have felt in King Henry's camp the night before the battle of Agincourt. For a moment one almost wanted to be a liberal again...
...Harry! England and Saint George!" Len Cariou lacks that hortatory magic of voice and presence. He is manly, straightforward and appealing, someone whom troops would always follow into the next town but scarcely into that cauldron of death and glory which is what Shakespeare meant by immortalizing Agincourt on St. Crispin...
...tricked out with such cinematic hocus-pocus as action shots montaged into a skull's eye sock et and heartbeats lub-dubbed onto the sound track. There is even a bit of bor rowing here too: a film clip of the magnificent charge of the French knights at Agincourt from Olivier's Henry V inexplicably turns up, and it is easily the best thing in the movie...
...easy to find the right five people to take a sauna together"). The Dauphin of France set a standard for the anti-gift when he presented the young Henry V with tennis balls, in insolent reference to his playboy reputation, and paid the price at Agincourt. Modern givers who want to choose an offensive present designed to break relations have a dizzyingly wide choice, ranging from a novelty ice tray that produces cubes in the form of nudes to a cookbook entitled something like The Favorite Southern Recipes of the Duchess of Windsor...