Word: martin
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...with that caveat in mind that a viewer will have to approach Bent, a reworking of the 1979 Martin Sherman play which treats the persecution and internment of gay men in Nazi Germany. Handsome and likable but startlingly self-centered, playboy Max (Clive Owen) regularly hurts the feelings of his young lover Rudy (Brian Webber) by sleeping around with other men. But one night Max picks up the wrong soldier at a club, and the next morning the Gestapo appears at their door. On the run from the S.S. for two years, Max and Rudy are finally captured...
...money. After describing it with much disgust, John declares that "people writhing around...singing political slogans does not constitute opera." Other potentially humorous moments in the text also ring with underscored conservative sentiments. Newt Gingrich is described as a "battling visionary" comparable to Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King. Also, when pondering his Norwegian heritage, John thinks, "If we aren't the chosen people, then why did God make us so close to the standard...
...This one could run on the History Channel: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). A balanced, almost documentary view of winter 1941, including the very distinct possibility that FDR and his top brass knew about it ahead of time. On the American side, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards and Joseph Cotten as Secretary of State Stimson, and S? Yamamura and Tatsuya Mihashi manning the aerial battering ram. A full complement of directors, one American and two Japanese, make this a true learner for those whose schoolbook days are mercifully over...
...judge panel, which unanimously selected the award winner, included Peter A. Diamond, professor of economics at MIT; Martin J. Gruber, chair of the Finance Department at New York University; James C. Hickman, dean of the Business School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Olivia S. Mitchell, professor of insurance and risk management at the Wharton School; Stephen A. Ross, professor of economics and finance at the Yale University School of Management, and John B. Shoven, dean of humanities and sciences at Stanford University...
Pressed by family members, police exhumed the body of Martin's husband and found evidence that he had been beaten to death. Then, reopening the case of Schmitt's wife, the cops concluded that he had drowned her in the bathtub before taking her in the car. According to an arrest affidavit, Martin has confessed to both crimes. When nabbed, the couple were making hasty preparations to leave town. Martin reportedly said they were about to contact a "matrimonial agency" in search of their next victim...