Word: martyrdoms
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...madonnas or dark scenes of Jesus' torture and death. To David Jaffé, senior curator at the National Gallery, Titian's empathy was his distinctive gift. When he depicts a beautiful woman, he says, "you can feel his real admiration. If he is painting a tragic subject, like a martyrdom, he is sharing the grief." He points to Titian's last picture, the Pietà of 1576: in a shadowy niche Mary struggles to support her son's dead body. Painted during the plague that destroyed a third of Venice's population of around 175,000, the work...
...high hopes that the removal of Saddam will strengthen our democratic allies in the region," Senator Joe Lieberman told me last week. He may be right. But there is also a chance that the exact opposite will happen, that war will nourish the Arab mirror fantasy: the fantasy of martyrdom, and a continuing romantic struggle that will only end when "Zionists and Crusaders" are once more expelled from the Holy Land...
...high hopes that the removal of Saddam will strengthen our democratic allies in the region," Senator Joe Lieberman told me last week. He may be right. But there is also a chance that the exact opposite will happen, that war will nourish the Arab mirror fantasy: the fantasy of martyrdom, and a continuing romantic struggle that will only end when "Zionists and Crusaders" are once more expelled from the Holy Land...
Revolution and martyrdom are powerful concepts in the Philippines. Few people recognize this as well as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. After all, she was elevated to the top job in 2001 through a popular uprising that ousted President Joseph Estrada. Last week, Arroyo attempted to switch from revolutionary hero to political martyr by announcing she wouldn't run for the presidency in the scheduled May 2004 elections. "If I don't make a sacrifice," she said during an event marking the anniversary of the death of martyred revolutionary hero José Rizal, "what will happen to our country...
...southern Russian town of Budennovsk in 1995 - a raid from which he did not expect to return, though he did manage to escape with most of his men and a human shield of 100-odd hostages who were later released. Basayev may feel this is a good time for martyrdom. He lost a leg in early 2000, leading his men through a minefield, and many of his family and most of his comrades are dead. Alpha will now hunt Basayev on his home turf, the districts of Nozhai-Yurt and particularly Vedeno, about 50 km southeast of Grozny, the base...