Word: martyrize
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Douglas Day Stewart's script has little use for the novel's other plot line: Hester's difficulty with her love child Pearl. But this Hester is readier to be martyr and lover than seamstress and mother. She is, you see, America's prototype feminist. (Caucasian feminist, that is--Pocahontas, in the Disney cartoon, beat Hester to the p.c. punch.) And the Rev, weak in the novel, is now a fiery film hero, deserving of the preposterous happy ending the filmmakers tack...
...Horner, he may work on themes and instrumentation, but "I can't really start weaving the quilt until the film is locked, since I'm writing to sequences of fixed footage and length. In Braveheart I wanted to help the feeling of the fellow being a hero and a martyr. Most people would have scored his execution differently. I chose to score it softly, with strings and a boys' choir. To me that was the color of his sacrifice...
...patron saint of militant gun owners, a living martyr whose infamous 1992 shoot-out with federal agents helped ignite "a seething backlash in the country," as the N.R.A. puts it. But as Randy Weaver looked out his window in a rural Iowa town last week, watching children play on the freshly mowed grass of a park across the street, he sounded more like a struggling single parent than an antigovernment desperado. The children on the lawn reminded him of Samuel, his 14-year-old son, who was shot and killed by federal agents. "He loved the outdoors," Weaver told...
...Zionist-Occupied Government). The apocalypse that came to their Idaho mountaintop in 1992--over flimsy gun charges against Randall--is one the Weavers surely helped bring on. But when an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver as she held her baby in her arms, it gave the movement a martyr...
...Conley, as usual, doesn't even make a clear point in this cartoon. If he is going to create something incendiary for the purpose of being inflammatory, he at least owes his reader some form of insight. Of course, knowing that Conley prefers to rabble-rouse and "martyr" himself to the conservative cause without any substance behind his claims, I am sure that he is pleased beyond words that his name appears as the target of yet another complaint to the Crimson (although never written as large as his ego demands it to be signed on his comic strip). Gene...