Word: martialled
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Cool costumes, flexible martial arts. Actually, that wouldn...
...movie's frequently plausible situations make the viewer uncomfortable. Motaba, the incurable, fatal African disease brought over by a monkey, can't be laughed off. Nor can scenes of the town's isolation under martial law. The formerly bucolic Cedar Creek is surrounded with barbed wire. Heavily guarded "camps" are constructed in which people march in, and emerge as corpses. The final solution for dealing with the infected, and thus incurable, is also disturbing--bomb them and destroy the virus...
...messages of social renewal sprinkled throughout the script, there is equal kowtowing to the god of glamourized violence. The same target audience that engages in bar fights and beat their wives are also being entertained by the Van Damme-styled fight scenes replete with tough talk and tightly choreographed martial arts maneuvers. For beefy guys who supposedly sit around and drink five or six liters of beer in a sitting, all this activity is especially impressive...
...York state, the law still reads that martial rape is not a crime," Fairstein said. "Legislators have declared the law unconstitutional, but have not voted to repeal...
...important targets in its long-running conflict with Hizballah, whose Shi'ite militiamen have been attacking Israeli troops in Southern Lebanon almost daily. But a look at one of the station's propaganda films shows why Yitzhak Rabin would be happy to see Lighthouse knocked out of commission. While martial music blares in the background, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's leader, is seen embracing departing fighters. Documentary footage shows guerrillas planting their flag, Iwo Jima-style, as they storm an Israeli position. Israeli troops load casualties onto stretchers and into helicopters. "Thousands upon thousands are waiting for their martyrdom," says...