Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subtlety so that the film does not end in the typical Hollywood way, with the main character summing up the importance of the film in an ostensibly stirring speech. It also take a renegade view towards violence. The director, Robert Benigni, makes it clear that people are about to die and spares us the gore. As a result, Benigni creates more sympathy for their pain than the desensitizing violence of Hollywood murders...
...thought that foreigners could possibly die in a hospital here because of a language barrier haunted me," she recalls. Within a few months she had produced her first translators' list. Often consulted, it is now published on the Internet. "Thousands of people have been assisted by the list since its inception," estimates Barbara Vaughn, public information director for Charleston. Translators have helped Cuban boat people stranded in port, sick Mexican migrant workers who couldn't communicate with hospital staff, Vietnamese schoolkids who couldn't understand instructions and a Norwegian sailor who ran away from a hospital, scared that his ship...
...Moses parting the waters and bringing them back together in a deadly rush with his outstretched arm. Before the miracle, as the Israelites saw Pharaoh's warriors bearing down on them, they had asked Moses, "Was it for want of graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness?" But now they broke into what Jack Miles, in his book God: A Biography, calls "one of the great, exultant victory songs in all literature," the Song of the Sea, in the 15th chapter of Exodus. An ancient rabbinical commentary elaborated, "Even the sucklings dropped their mothers' breasts...
...Israel "shall be my treasured possession among all the peoples." Moses leads his followers to the foot of the mountain where God begins to speak to them. They tremble. "You speak to us and we will obey," they tell Moses,"but let not God speak to us, lest we die." God complies, Moses ascends and verbally receives what the ancient rabbis called the "10 pearls," which he reports to the Israelites. In a ritual similar to contemporary Hittite and Assyrian treaties between a King and his vassals, the Israelites then swear their loyalty to the Lord. God bids Moses...
...gradually becomes clear that the complaints of the Israelites are not subsiding. At one point they even whine that they are bored with manna. Ever more frequently, God culls their ungrateful ranks with fire or plague; and eventually he rules that they shall die of old age in the desert, and only their children, untainted by prior servitude, may attain the Promised Land...