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...Illustrating that, despite time, nothing really changes, the film’s modern portrayal of Thermopylae diverges from Herodotus’ only to embrace our Western, 21st. century democratic biases. The heroic Spartan warriors fight for oddly modern Western values, in contrast to those of their actual society. At a climactic point in the film, Leonidas encourages his men: “A new age has come, an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend...
...thrilled to his vision of an America that rolled back Soviet power. In 2004, conservatives overlooked George W. Bush's prescription drug benefit and his liberal stance on immigration, and turned out for him in record numbers, because they believed so deeply in his war on terror. Now, by contrast, right-wingers carp endlessly about his domestic spending, even though his budgets have been leaner in his second term than in his first, because his foreign policy has become such a depressing affair...
...contrast, your first lead was being dismembered in a horror movie...
...ineffective. He compares it to historical precedent, designating six features of the doctrine that are extreme departures from prior American national security policy. He attacks Bush’s hypocrisy by using the president’s own stance in the 2000 elections as a contrast to his present policy. And he weighs the detriment—fiscal, moral, and military—the United States has faced since the institution of the Bush Doctrine. But the book is much more than one long polemic. Shapiro argues that terrorism can be contained despite the contrast between these small cells...
...midday sun that fall upon her thighs. In another well balanced print, “Soleil sur Marais” (1962), jittery zigzags of light serve as a topographical map, and mark a woman fully submerged just under the surface of the ocean. Because of the high contrast and abstraction of the photograph, the woman is, at first, hidden from the viewer. Discovering her amidst the jumble of bright squiggles becomes an act of undressing her. The water-as-clothing motif appears in several of the other photographs, and is part of the larger allegory of water-as-mother. Clergue?...