Word: honored
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...conventionally mounted studies about working-class topics that do not make the cinephile's aesthete spirit leap in anticipation. He's the kind of guy who turns down decorations from the Queen because he loathes the evil - or at least twitish - company he would have to keep on her honor's list. Put it simply: Almodovar...
...movie's major difference from the book is in its portrait of Leonidas' queen, Gorgo (who in Greek legend was also the daughter of the king's half-brother). Miller, mesmerized by battle and honor, had little interest in the queen; she appears in just a few panels. The movie, true to the actual Spartan tradition of emancipated womanhood, promotes Gorgo (played with a kind of stalwart sensuality by Headey) to a co-starring role, allowing her to take fatal revenge on a wicked politician who had sodomized her. In the book, Leonidas thought Sparta was always an ideal worth...
...Even the Spartans' nobility is homoneurotic. They rhapsodize about "a beautiful death," and figure in military hagiography somewhere between Wagner's Siegfried and the Third Reich's S.S. (I mean that in a nice way.) "It's an honor to die at you side,"one officer says toward the end to Leonidas, who replies, "It's an honor to have lived at yours." If this movie dialogue were between a man and a woman, I guarantee the audience would spill their popcorn in giggle fits. But the crowd I saw 300 with suffered all this strained seriousness in respectful silence...
Lucien Clergue is one of only three photographers to receive the French Legion of Honor award. (Henri Cartier-Bresson and André Kertész complete the triad.) Given this distinction, it’s quite astounding that a nascent private gallery like the Pierre Menard Gallery, at 10 Arrow St., would hold an extensive collection of his work. Yet the gallery’s exhibition of 84 of Clergue’s prints, on display through March 15, is notable for reasons other than its mere existence. The massive assembly at once reinforces and threatens Clergue?...
Just two days after being named one of three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given each year to the nation’s top women’s hockey player, senior forward Julie Chu was named co-Ivy League Player of the Year. Chu will share the honor with Dartmouth forward Gillian Apps. Junior defenseman Caitlin Cahow joins Chu as a unanimous selection to the Ivy League first team, while sophomores Sarah Vaillancourt and Brittany Martin were named to the second team...