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Ward, the idealistic agent, understands and relishes the symbolic significance of his case. If the bodies of the missing youths can be recovered and it can be proved that they were murdered by organized racism, then their deaths will be redeemed by martyrdom and justice. The movie argues that Ward's confrontational tactics, which include bringing in a huge investigative task force and attracting excessive national media attention, not only delay progress on the case but also stir more violent crimes in response: beatings, church burning, even a lynching...
...accept Jesus as the Messiah, they do believe that the man from Galilee might well have seen himself in that light. In fact, a number of lesser religious figures of Jesus' era also believed this about themselves. As for Jesus' death, Flusser interprets it within a motif of martyrdom that stemmed from the Maccabees, rather than from the belief that the Crucifixion would take away the sins of the world. "I am sure," says Flusser, "that there were many Jews, when Jesus was crucified, who believed this innocent victim of Roman cruelty would stop the anger of God against...
...than ever recognizable to Americans as the work of, well, Americans -- Hispanic Americans. Paintings and music that spring from Latin sources are being filtered through a north-of-the-border sensibility. As in La Bamba: its story of Chicano life is told through myths of immigrant struggle and showbiz martyrdom that were born in the U.S.A. Increasingly, too, Hispanic artists and entertainers are courting the mass audience in English. Many of the nation's Latino theaters perform in English only. "I don't want to be a good Hispanic theater," says Max Ferra, Artistic Director of Manhattan's predominantly English...
John Kennedy's stature is retrospectively inflated by his martyrdom. But as a candidate he was seen as a lightweight. "There are men and there are boys," wrote Murray Kempton in 1960. "Lyndon Johnson, say of him what you will, is a man. Jack Kennedy...
Earlier in the day, the gunmen said they had donned "death shrouds" and had dubbed the jetliner "the plane of martyrdom...