Word: butlers
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...paternal butler in Batman Begins and Nicole Kidman's pop in Bewitched, Michael Caine is summer cinema's father figure...
...fairness, it must be said that the script (by director Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer) breaks with sobriety to give someone, usually Michael Caine as Alfred, Bruce's faithful, fussy butler, something smart to say. Eventually, however, Nolan, who directed the tricky, widely admired Memento, must oblige the conventions of the big-budget action movie: darkly improbable weaponry, pyrotechnics, car chases (the Batmobile is admittedly pretty novel), editing that edges toward incomprehensibility...
...German textbook claimed that Nazi actions during the war were justified as a defense against Jews and communists. There would understandably be a huge uproar across Europe. Japan's wartime atrocities were crimes against humanity comparable to those in Europe, yet they have been below our moral radar. John Butler Kidderminster, England...
...German textbook claimed Nazi actions during the war were justified as a defense against Jews and communists. There would understandably be a huge uproar across Europe. Japan's wartime atrocities were crimes against humanity comparable to those in Europe, yet they have been below our moral radar. John Butler Kidderminster, England You reported that Chinese premier Wen Jiabao snubbed Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, saying, "Only a country that respects history... [and] wins over the trust of people in Asia and the world at large can take greater responsibilities in the international community...
...deep reflection after the election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, I found myself reading over William Butler Yeats well-known and disturbing poem The Second Coming. The lasting image from this poem is of a civilization falling apart at the seams with the result that the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...