Word: martyrize
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...balanced and meticulously researched biography, Dublin-born journalist Brian Inglis traces the Sophoclean confluence of events and experiences that led Casement to fame, obloquy and the gallows as yet another martyr for Irish freedom. How high Casement rates in that mad hierarchy depends on how history will eventually assess the shadowed side of his nature. Casement was a rapacious homosexual, a fact that was never suspected until his arrest in 1916, when Scotland Yard seized his private papers. Its most notable find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession...
...rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders wearing shades and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the Western hero turned outcase. One the run, a hunted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory--at this point the movie gets boring--he dodges the cops a while longer and then gets shot up on the beach. Three guesses as to why Jimmy Cliff was so quickly initiated into the local pantheon of counterculture super-stars. This man on the run from...
...Erica Jong, we all know how tough it is to be a feminist. Life is tough too. That doesn't make you a martyr for living. The point is that there isn't any point in writing the new book on women and liberation if you can't see your way clear through the issues involved. So, you didn't tell us anything new, though you gave us a lot of good juice and pillow talk, which was nice. You didn't write the book we need which would show us a woman etching out a serious liberation. Your Isadora...
...Soviet imperialism. They have not forgotten the reform era of the "Prague Spring" when Alexander Dubcek and the other liberal leaders tried to humanize the face of Czech socialism; they have not forgotten the Russian tanks that rumbled into their country in August, 1968; they have not forgotten the martyr, Palach, who immolated himself in a central square of Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet decision to deprive Czechoslavakia of self-determination...
...sexual victory should clinch a cheer straight from her heart. "It's the principle of the thing" -- listen to her next evening over martinis with her husband -- "that counts." And there will be Libber bantering over dinner like a replay of the Battle. And, gutfelt, she will make a martyr of Billy Jean King, while he, half joking and half dead serious, will stick up for Bobby Riggs. And she will defend her right to be selfish when she orders breakfast in bed that Sunday morning, and he, caught in good enough humor, might even go dogtailed to make...