Word: barbarian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women." ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, California Governor, quoting a line from his movie Conan the Barbarian when asked to describe his governing philosophy
Beginning with the story of barbarian tribes along the Rhine in the first century B.C., Ozment’s book identifies a resilience and pride that is deeply rooted in the Germans’ past. Surviving endless Roman attacks in the early years, it is remarkable that the Germans came to control the entire empire 500 years later...
...generation of musical-theater composers, won't comment on the state of the Broadway musical (he doesn't want to hurt any feelings) and says he doesn't see many musicals anyway. He prefers going to straight plays, watches movies at home on video (recent favorites: The Barbarian Invasions and Elephant) and listens mostly to symphonic music--"nonvocal, because the words are so distracting." With Assassins coming together, he is buckling down to finish three final songs for The Frogs ("I'm a slow writer, and I only have a month to do them, so it's tight"). Then...
...WROTE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER'S FIRST BIG ACTION FILM, CONAN THE BARBARIAN. HOW DO YOU THINK HE'S DOING AS GOVERNOR...
...fighting altogether, it can't. "Some people don't like it, some people like it, other people like it in moderation," says NHL executive vice president Bill Daly. "But there hasn't been this huge hue and cry to get it out of the game because it's so barbarian. We have bigger problems." That demonstrates deafness to this week's hue and cry, but Daly is correct in one regard. The NHL is in the worst shape of its history, having suffered from overexpansion in the past decade. The game itself has been dulled by a suffocating defensive style...