Word: martyrize
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Where Pasolini fails, and it is a substantial failure, is in the inability to match his vivid re-creation of a place and time with an equally fresh portrait of Jesus. Christ sheds the mantle of soulful martyr but still seems no more than a fierce embodiment of divine purpose, as stiff and one-dimensional as those who have gone before. The movie sags at the center, weighed down by interminable closeups and sermons. The sound track swells with passages from Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Webern, an African Mass and-as an odd counterpoint to the Nativity-Odetta's recording...
...Defense Attorney Pilcher hinted darkly that Reeb did not die simply from his wounds. The civil rights movement wanted headlines, he contended, and there was "a motivation on the part of certain civil rights groups to have a martyr." Pilcher could produce no hard evidence that "they willingly let him die," and Ashworth riddied the claim with objections. But Pilcher had made his point...
...Bulawayo's fashionable Hotel Victoria, guests were forced to make their own beds. Tear gas and threats to fire all strikers finally restored a semblance of order, but not before black nationalist agitators had made their first successful show of force -and had been given their first martyr...
Whatever the results, it seems unlikely that any definitive answer to the mystery will be forthcoming. But for observers of Soviet society, the renewed interest in Alexander is phenomenon enough. By bringing to public attention the life of a mystic and martyr, a pre-Soviet hero and reformer, Russia's new bosses are showing a broad-mindedness far greater than that of their predecessors. The resurgence of the Alexander legend shows an acceptance of not only a Czar but an aspect of pro-Bolshevik history that transcends the rigid confines of Marxist-Leninist "truth...
...physicians have been burning themselves, and sometimes patients as well, with accidental overdoses. And like the damage from exposure to more recently discovered sources of nuclear energy, X-ray burns have proved virtually incurable. Despite skin grafts, they often lead to progressive gangrene and successive amputations one famed "Xray martyr," Chicago's late Dr. Emil Grubbé, had no fewer than 93 operations before he died...