Word: barbarianism
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...WROTE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER'S FIRST BIG ACTION FILM, CONAN THE BARBARIAN. HOW DO YOU THINK HE'S DOING AS GOVERNOR...
...dark middle-ages spirit of misery and terror that Van Biema referred to has been the excuse for barbarian atrocities by Christians against the Jewish people throughout the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, which yielded several million more "crucifixions" of innocent Jews. Moshe G. Katz Rishon Le-Zion, Israel...
...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...
...this year, I counted no less than seven certified jaw-droppers in the big categories: Director and Screenplay nominations for City of God, an obscure Brazilian film released back in January 2003; a Screenplay nom for The Barbarian Invasions, a French-language movie from Canada; two Acting nominationss and a Screenplay nod for In America, a small film with no star wattage; and a freak Best Actress nomination for 13-year-old Whale Rider star Keisha Castle-Hughes, who became the youngest nominee in the category’s history...
...film itself, denying Miramax a Best Picture finalist for the first time in 12 years. The company's co-chairman Harvey Weinstein is still determined to find the pony in the manure. "With Cold Mountain, City of God [which got Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography and Editing nods] and The Barbarian Invasions [Foreign Language]," he insists, "this is the moment to say, All right, we're there. No one's taking those nominations away for five weeks, so we can run like demons and try to do some business on these films...