Word: lording
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...Kuraj, Di Natale interviewed scholars of Central Asia, Stalingrad veterans, former prison-camp inmates, Cologne civilians who survived the war and a Tunshan woman she calls Kaja. Accordingly, Kuraj sometimes reads like an ethnosociological monograph, with exacting descriptions of Tunshan customs and ceremonies, as well as Lord of the Rings dialogue ("May Qormusda grant you long life, khan of the Tunshan"). Such false notes are rare. Di Natale's account of the fighting at Stalingrad is thrilling, her descriptions of postwar German privations heartbreaking, her imagery cunning (Berger, for instance, hitches a ride to the killing fields of Stalingrad...
...Sweet lord, is there anything more awkward than when a friend hands you some headphones and says you should listen to a “great” song? All Garden State-style? Especially when it’s a damn Bright Eyes song...
Coming off of “Lord of the Rings” and “Hildago,” Mortensen was not the obvious choice for such a role, but Cronenberg realized, “This movie, in a weird way, is much more like the films he normally does, which is character acting...
Scalia and Breyer—both HLS graduates—were joined by English justices Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lady Justice Arden (also an HLS alumna), and Lord Scott of Foscote in the event, organized by the Anglo-American Legal Exchange...
...question gun love than to celebrate it. In Aric Avelino's American Gun, a film shown at the Toronto Film Festival last week, the gun is seen as a virtual urban plague that ends young lives, sunders families and turns schools into maximum-security prisons. Andrew Niccol's Lord of War imagines that a Ukrainian-American named Yuri (Nicolas Cage) could rise through the arms-dealing underworld, Scarface-style, spreading the virulence around the globe. There's "one firearm for every 12 people on the planet," Yuri says. "The only question is, How do we arm the other...