Word: martyrizing
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That, of course, is another story, one that transcends the rash jottings of a 14-year-old and creates the kind of stir that occurs when competing interests squabble over the bones of a martyr...
...Mahathir had just fired him, he probably would have prevailed," says TIME senior foreign correspondent Johanna McGeary. "Instead, he's made a martyr of him." McGeary points out that it was similar social unrest that toppled President Suharto in Indonesia. Mahathir said at the time that the IMF was responsible for that uprising. This time, he's got no one to blame but himself...
...Lewinsky matter to lead to impeachment proceedings. Independent counsel history is on Kendall's side, too -- Iran-Contra prosecutors offered the White House right-of-reply. And the best part is that if Starr takes a hard line and denies his request, Kendall's boss gets to play the martyr. Who says politics isn't fair...
SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) The searing poems she wrote just before her suicide in 1963 made her a literary and feminist martyr. Her onetime mentor Robert Lowell described her last works as "playing Russian roulette with six cartridges in the cylinder." Plath's poem to her long-dead father redefined confessional writing: "Every woman adores a Fascist,/ The boot in the face, the brute/ Brute heart of a brute like...
...blame the guy. If the choice were to go down as either the publisher of cheap porn or a First Amendment activist, you'd be trying to get arrested too. So Larry Flynt returned to Cincinnati to martyr himself again. The Ohio city, where Flynt was arrested on obscenity charges in 1977, is called Censornati by free-speech crusaders, and is one of the few smut-free zones in the country. Enforcement is so strict that residents had to drive to Kentucky to see Paula Jones naked in Penthouse. Trying to catch the eye of the Cincinnati police, Flynt handed...