Word: martyrize
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Throughout, Apted and Connolly rather dryly observe MacLaine as he slips into druggy melancholy, paranoia and self-pity, grooming himself for martyr dom. Then, abruptly, irony is forsaken, and he becomes a full-fledged martyr, dying flamboyantly on-camera, done in by the same forces that created him. It is a facile, melodramatic conclusion that does nothing to complement all the good that has gone before...
Both of these incidents appear in the novel, fictionalized and in one ease significantly altered from his own earlier account, to allow him to present himself (in the guise of Enderby) as a martyr...
...observe his trial but were turned down. Meanwhile, the All-Union Council's plea for amnesty for all Baptist prisoners has led to the release of 50 of them. Baptist General Secretary Aleksei Bichkov, however, plans no special appeal for Vins, whom he considers an extremist with a martyr complex: "He is the most zealous of our opponents. He has called us atheists...
...ingrained that members of the SEC seriously considered letting him replace the embezzled money quietly and resign, in order to preserve public confidence. And, after an initial orgy of gloating in the press, public reaction swung sharply to Whitney's side, and began to see a stoic martyr where there was really only a self-deluded man who believed--until the last minute his world collapsed--that Jersey Lightning applejack would sweep the nation and make his enormous investment in applejack distilleries pay off. These two elements--an unthinking crossing of the line between the legal and the illegal...
Lenny really gets into the spirit of St. Bruce, the Martyr, but it's hard to see how the abysmal TV comedian Marty Brill can pull it off; so this remains a good bet only fro enthusiasts. Charles Playhouse, Tues.-Fri. at 8 p.m. Saturday, 6 and 9:30 p.m., Sunday...