Word: martyrizing
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...become a catalyst for a cause," Reems, whose real name is Herbert Streicher, said. "I hope I don't become a martyr...
...former Gestapo chief of Lyon, on France's request. Furthermore, the caller added, the dapper ambassador was marked for death because in 1967, as a Bolivian colonel, he had supervised the CIA-trained forces that tracked down and killed Fidel Castro's roving revolutionary Che Guevara, a martyr in many versions of leftist scripture. The gun used in the assassination, said the spokesman, was the same one used last October in Paris in an unsuccessful attempt on the life of a Spanish military attache. French ballistics experts tentatively confirmed the claim...
Pain is much more readily conveyed by art than ecstasy, presumably because it is more tactile, and the santeros lost no opportunities to stress it. Saint Acacius, an early Christian warrior-martyr, is shown crucified in Mexican military costume, flanked by a V-shaped row of contemporary soldiers. The gaunt, hacked Christs drip blood by the pint, their rib cages and muscles have a flayed pathos that transcends the crudeness of carving and drawing; and in some pieces, like the articulated figure of the Standing Christ, with rawhide-hinged elbows, the imagery of pain acquires an immense expressive force...
...peasant couple striding through the fields is based on Masaccio's fresco of Adam and Eve, expelled from Eden and condemned to labor. This resonance is deepened by the potato basket on the wife's head and by the thong she carries like the attribute of a martyr...
...Pasolini was a martyr, he died for no cause. No one really knows who killed him, or why, but for the moment it appears to have been a killing motivated by sexual passions. The young boy who has confessed to the crime, "Pino" Pelosi, said he did it "because he (Pasolini) wanted to change roles. I said no, the agreement was that I got to be the man. So he hit me and called me a dirty pig. And then I didn't see anything any more and started hitting him and hitting him as hard as I could." Whether...