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...witness: "Brutus took the knife and killed Caesar. Caesar seemed to look, well, sorta surprised, and he murmured 'Et tu Brute?' Then he died...
...directors, Robert Young and Fred Schepisi, don't wind their material very tightly. Still, this good-natured movie is very much in the spirit of those ancient comedies from Ealing Film Studios in which nice, silly people defend some enclave of old-fashioned sanity against the forces of brute modernism. And that's a tradition worth reviving...
...mode of work is what it has always been," says Kuptsov, "especially now, when we are frozen out of the media. We rely on word-of-mouth, on the kind of door-to-door hard work we've always been good at." As an example of the organization's brute strength and savvy, Kuptsov offers this: "When it came time to collect the required 1 million signatures to become a candidate, Yeltsin gathered 1.4 million, but we went out and got 7 million. Why? Because we used the signature-collection process as a legitimate excuse to visit in people...
...Everest had become the accessible behemoth, or so it seemed. Never as murderously tricky to climb as K-2, the world's second-highest peak, its challenge lay in the brute facts of its extreme altitude, occasional storms and inaccessibility. As clothing and equipment manufacturers mitigated the first problem, and a sprawling base camp sprang up at 5,340 meters to provide warmth and food to dozens of would-be peak beaters, the issue for elite climbers was no longer whether they could reach Everest's pinnacle but rather how many paying customers they could take with them...
They proved that not all teams are endowed with fundamentals, just as not all hitters are endowed with brute strength...