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...could play the martyr and put Cabot down as my first choice. Any fun I'd have there would be like revenge...
Given this record of disrespect for the dead, is it surprising then that Christa McAuliffe is being touted as a martyr for a cause other than the one she lived...
...volume for the big screen, Gage has sacrificed much of the undercover reportage that made Eleni such a good read. He relies instead on a top-heavy selection of sentimental flashbacks featuring Eleni selflessly ministering to the needs of her children, sanctifying her as the archtypical Grecian mother-martyr. In so doing, Gage forgoes the realistic context essential to the docu-drama style he is ostensibly seeking (and had achieved in the book), ending up instead with a tear-soaked, superficial Monday Night at the Movies...
...remote. Even when his emotionally distraught daughter attempts suicide, he sends an emissary to her bedside. Eventually, the young woman seeks fulfillment outside her native country, first in Europe, then in the U.S., where she and her daughter live today. In the final chapters she celebrates the statesman and martyr she knows better in death than in life. Yet it is as a man that her father remains most appealing, spending his Nobel Peace Prize money to benefit his birthplace ("The villagers even had color TV before I did in Cairo") and promoting culture. "You made me cry the other...
Black Leader Steve Biko has been a martyr to South Africa's antiapartheid movement since his death in 1977 from brain injuries suffered while in police custody. In Pretoria last week, the South African Medical and Dental Council acted against two white government doctors for their treatment of Biko. Surgeon Benjamin Tucker was found guilty of "disgraceful" conduct, including failure to examine Biko properly and allowing police to move the badly injured prisoner 700 miles overland to a prison hospital. The panel also ruled that Surgeon Ivor Lang was guilty of "improper" conduct for, among other things, failing to notice...