Word: knights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much. For proof, see Dirty Pretty Things, an English film written by Steven Knight and directed by indie vet Stephen Frears. On its face, this could be called an expose of the inhuman condition. Illegal immigrants trade their organs for fake passports, and the dangerous operations are performed in a London hotel room. For people following a dream of solvency from the Third World to the First, everything must be bought, at the cost of one's honor. "I don't want to take your virginity," a sweatshop owner tells an employee, forcing her into oral sex. "I just want...
...glasses the clearly false Shiga then regaled the audience with an absurd shaggy dog story about being born on a desert island as the product of a Japanese WWII pilot and two American army nurses. The second remarkable moment took place courtesy of Frank Miller, author of "The Dark Knight Strikes Again," who has in recent years become far more interesting as a comics gadfly than a creator. Prior to handing out the "Best Graphic Album - New" award (which rightfully went to Lynda Barry's "One! Hundred! Demons!") Miller lamented the rising cost of a single comicbook. Noting they have...
Like most other prosecutors, Earle often sees himself as an advocate--for his constituents, for the state, for crime victims. Because of their role, prosecutors tend to be portrayed in popular culture as modern-day knights. But Earle has come to prefer another metaphor. "I'm the gatekeeper," he says. "I don't dare ask my boss, the public, to sit in judgment of somebody that I don't think deserves to die. That's why they elect me, to exercise that judgment and not bother them." Buried in that philosophy is something radical--the notion that the jury system...
...Blackhawk helicopter in Mogadishu. And they may be an even more attractive option in Baghdad because of the fact that, as one commentator has noted, "superbly effective and light bullet-proof vests and helmets make the U.S. and British soldier almost as well protected as the medieval knight...
...National Security Adviser Condi Rice gamely defended the Administration on last Sunday's talkshows, saying "Maybe someone knew in the bowels of the [CIA], but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery." But Knight-Ridder reports that the CIA briefings pooh-poohing the claim had gone all the way to the top, and had been ignored by Vice President Dick Cheney and other advocates of war. The Administration might be in real trouble, of course, if its credibility were being measured by the various statements of the Vice President...