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...truth, King Cariadoc is a Columbia University physicist named David Friedman, and the valiant knight who "slew" him is a male nurse from Toledo named Andrew Holly. The clash of their armies near Waterford, Pa., last weekend was brutal but bloodless. It was merely another lovingly re-created medieval spectacle staged by the Society for Creative Anachronism, a six-year-old organization whose 3,000 members are in love with the Middle Ages. They like nothing better than dressing in replicas of medieval clothing, adopting such names as Sir Thorvald the Grim and playing Knight...
...evil imperialists but well meaning economists statisticians and sociologists with their own developed view of the world--a view that holds up international stability under benevolent American dominance as an ideal toward which to strive As Introducing Harvard" explains their view of stability actually serves to justify brutal repression of Third World liberation movements and their conception of American benevolence turns out to mean exploitation by American corporate interests. The CFIA is an enemy of the people of the world but it is an enemy that must understood and coped with on its own terms...
Arrara Budd Boetticher who made a score of fifties Westerns with Randolph Scott and is a favorite of film cultists, spent five years filming this documentary study of the Mexican bullfighter, Boring and brutal...
...that. In his youth, Yokoi was apparently made to feel inferior. Out of iji (spite), he decided to prove himself superior to everyone else in at least one thing: the capacity to suffer. "I had an extra-tough childhood," Yokoi explains. "So many people were harsh, cruel or downright brutal to me. By sticking to the jungle, I actually sought to vent my spite on all these people by remote control; I had to become somebody who could look down on these fellows to even the old score. And I think I have...
Hemingway admirers must be unhappy these days, what with the assaults on his character that pour out of other people's memoirs. But if anyone needs to be reminded that Hemingway could dish it out too, Torrents of Spring will do as an example. It is a brutal parody of Sherwood Anderson, a man who influenced Hemingway's prose and helped him materially early in his career...