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...better than me he'll come out and if I'm better than him, I'll come out.' " Corduff was arrested and, along with four other local landowners, hauled before a judge 200 miles away in Dublin who, at Shell's insistence, imprisoned the men for contempt of court for violating the injunction against interfering with work on the pipeline. After the men, who remained defiant in court, had spent 94 days in prison, Shell backed down and withdrew the injunction. By then, of course, the Rossport Five, as they became known, had rallied nationwide support for their "Shell...
...giant Festival Palais screen as a bad Hollywood movie. In 1992 the Opening Night entry was Basic Instinct, that chicly sleazy sex-and-violence thriller starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone and the space between Sharon Stone's legs. U.S. critics had seen the movie months before, and dumped their contempt on it. Yet in the Lumiere Theatre at Cannes, on that 60-ft.-wide canvas, it had the kind of luminosity, confidence and throbbing pulse that no Franco-Polish minimalist masterpiece could match. This, we were reminded, is why audiences in almost every foreign country prefer Hollywood movies to their...
...Coens have been accused once or twice of of criminal facetiousness - that their blend of extreme gore and low comedy in such movies as Raising Arizona and Fargo betrays a contempt for both the genre and their characters. If that was ever true, it's not here. No Country has respect for both Moss' can-do resilience and Chigurh's inhuman relentlessness; the film is fascinated with the expertise and poise under pressure of desperate men whose time is running out. For an hour and 40 mins. the film never lets up, deftly charting the itineraries of Moss, Chigurh...
...These new threats-as during the time of the Third Reich-are the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world.' VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, in a speech that prompted some to say he was likening U.S. policy to that of Nazi Germany. The Kremlin said he was referring to violent extremism...
...These new threats--as during the time of the Third Reich--are the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world...