Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rome with that of the Twentieth Centurians. "Rome in its decline was quite similar to our world today," he insists. "There was the same fury of enjoying life, the same lack of moral principles and ideologies, and the same complacency. Today we are finished with the Christian myth and await a new one. There is analogy in Satyr-icon." But history, unlike jurisprudence, is not always based on precedent. It is, in Valéry's term, "the science of what never happens twice...
...managed to squeal and squirm enough to disrupt the Chicago proceedings. Besides, the sight of a bound prisoner is repugnant to most Americans. And a gag only supports defendants' claims that they are being silenced for their political views. Judge Julius Hoffman finally ordered Seale to jail to await trial alone...
...takes Max as a client may appear to some unclear. though a case could be made that it results from the personal antagonism of two different lifestyles, as I think Levy would argue; in any case it's strangely believable-we've seen men dying in cancer commercials, we await the Maysles brothers record of the murder at Altamont, and the theatre needs murder or real copulation to keep us interested, so it's all of a piece somehow. Max's suicide is quickly out of his control; in one of the film's best scenes Farson and an underling...
...nine bouts: its men of the epee matched that record, though its sabre lads won but four of nine. Elliott Hurwitz skewered three straight. Trinity foilers, and Bill Castle, embarrassed by an early loss, won two straight using the same instrument. As for the specific techniques, you must await more experienced witnesses, this being my first exposure to (??) and slashing outside the political arena...
...roams the countryside with the abandoned baby son of the executed governor. She is never more than a few steps ahead of the Ironshirts, the brutal mercenaries ordered to find and murder the infant heir. In her search for a sanctuary where she can hide the boy and await the return of her lover from the imperial army, she meets with nothing but greed and hostility from the frightened peasants and rapacious lust from the soldiers. Her efforts to confront a culture of selfish barbarism with some compassion and decency only estrange her from her lover and mark...