Word: aslan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heavy-handed allegory! I’m referring here of course to the weekend’s blockbuster—the first installment in the non-awaited film adaptations of “The Chronicles of Narnia.” Kids will be screaming for the mighty Lion Aslan (Christ) to kick some evil witch (Satan/Woman/Jew) butt! For in Narnia, it will be always be winter, but never Christmas. Hopefully the Pevensie children will be victorious, because Baby Jesus’s birthday is in less than three weeks and I plan on celebrating! So with this weekend to whet...
...arch-sinister character, the White Witch Jadis. “So it’s a free pass into all sorts of nonsense that doesn’t add up.”Blithely risking blasphemy, she describes the solemn scene where her character sacrifices anthropomorphic messiah Aslan as “a full-on rock concert of the Iron Maiden variety.”And Swinton is even less reverent when she talks about her reasons for taking the role. Mostly, she says, she was hoping to help secure funding for other projects she’s planning, like...
...websites hailed what they called a successful operation by the "Kabardino-Balkaria section of the Caucasus Front," praising it as proof that the strategy introduced by the Chechen insurgency's new leader, Abdul Khalim Sadulayev, was working. The 37-year-old cleric took over after his more moderate predecessor, Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in March. Since then, the tone and tactics of the conflict have taken a firmly radical turn. Rebel leaders go beyond criticizing the West's failure to denounce Russia's brutal tactics in Chechnya; they increasingly reject Western values based, they say, on "materialism and atheism...
...fire in the school, and tanks were called in only after all the surviving hostages had been freed. Kesayev, who was in the Russian emergency command center in Beslan throughout the crisis, also claims that the Kremlin deliberately failed to respond to an offer by moderate Chechen guerrilla leader Aslan Maskhadov (killed by Russian special forces in March) to negotiate the hostages' release. That assertion is supported by a former Russian official who was also in the Beslan command center: "Someone higher up decided: 'Why make Maskhadov a hero?'" Russian officials reject the assertion, voicing doubts that Maskhadov's offer...
...guess: Dumbledore has taken a major hit, no question. But look at the precedents. Aslan died and came back in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Gandalf snuffed it in The Fellowship of the Ring, and he was up and about in no time. We'll meet again, Albus...