Word: martyrizing
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...affinity with liberalism, perhaps because of its focus on how individuals can be shaped--or ruined--by social systems. Crash was a 10-car pileup of pieties about race relations. Emilio Estevez's hyperearnest film Bobby (opening later this month) juxtaposes the 1968 assassination of progressive martyr Robert F. Kennedy--portrayed messianically as the last, best hope for the race- and war-torn U.S.--with the imbricated stories of 22 characters. (One of whom is played by ... Ashton Kutcher. Coincidence? I think...
...Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon will also come in a way we still cannot imagine, because we are fighting an enemy we have never met. Suicide bombers are supposed to be 17-year-old zealots with nothing to live for but the hope of a martyr's welcome by 72 virgins in paradise. These men, the FBI reveals, lived middle-class lives, had degrees and jobs and wives and kids and a willingness to leave them all to kill us. Among the casualties last week was our sweet certainty that anyone lucky enough to be able...
...Hamas forces are more disciplined than Abbas's men and equally well armed. So far, Fatah and Hamas shrugged off pleas from Arab governments that the only victor in a fight between them would be their common foe, Israel. One miltia linked to Abbas, the al-Aksa Martyr's Brigade, has vowed to start assassinating Hamas leaders in Palestine and abroad. Israelis military officials are also alarmed by the chaos in Gaza; they fear that, inevitably, a civil war among Palestinians will flood over into Israel...
Although Pac lived the so-called “thug life” and predicted that he would die at a young age (he was 25 when his car was ambushed by a gunman in Las Vegas), he should not be remembered as a martyr or a prophet. Hip hop fans worshipped him, but he should not be remembered as a hero, either. Pac should be remembered because he articulated his confusion and rage so well. His music reflects the complexity of a life spent trying to reconcile a career that brought great fame and riches with a youth...
...failings, many of which he discussed in his act, Lenny had a persecution complex ? because he was so often persecuted! ? and a martyr fixation. He identified with one of the few historical figures he unconditionally revered: Jesus. The Christ analogy can be pushed too far (Jesus was not a junkie, though he was a Jew), but there's no question that Lenny was relentlessly and unfairly hounded by the judiciary system. Record producer Phil Spector, who championed the comedian in his last year, claimed that Lenny "died from an overdose of police." Think that's an exaggeration? Well, Martin Garbus...