Word: citizens
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...lost count at 33 viewings back when I was around 17, and that was a very long time ago. I'm sure the count stands at over 50 now. I'm not sure it's the most significant film in my canon, but it's a big one, like "Citizen Kane" or "Vertigo" or "Taxi Driver" or "La Dolce Vita." "Kong" was the first film to which I ever gave a close reading, in the narrowest technical sense. Seeing the film as often as I did made it possible for me to examine each contribution in depth - fortunately...
...GEORGE KARGER/TIMEPIX Watching what Steiner did in "Kong" expanded my appreciation of all film scores, an appreciation I've never lost, and for which I am appropriately grateful. The rich scoring of Kong set me up for Bernard Herrmann a couple years later, when I finally caught up with "Citizen Kane...
...continue preparations for a revolution: breaking the decades-old lock that traditional parties and career politicians have had on political life in Toulouse. "The aim of this goes far beyond seeking power, or the upcoming election," says Salah Amokrane, 37, head of the Motivé-e-s list of "citizen candidates," an independent, largely improvised movement inspired by a rock band. "It's a reminder to other citizens that democracy is about active participation, not just surrendering a vote to the same old suspects every election...
...will and the needs of "the international community." That is why the Clinton Administration was almost manic in pursuit of multilateral treaties--on chemical weapons, biological weapons, nuclear testing, proliferation. No matter that they could not be enforced. Our very signing would show us to be a good international citizen...
This is folly. America is no mere international citizen. It is the dominant power in the world, more dominant than any since Rome. Accordingly, America is in a position to reshape norms, alter expectations and create new realities. How? By unapologetic and implacable demonstrations of will...