Word: max
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...Max Weber defined the state as a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force. When this monopoly dissolves, the state is in serious trouble. No country sits by quietly while its population riots, and there's no reason to demand that Israel do so. The Parisian police control their "manifestations," the United States put down riots in Newark, Watts, and Detroit in the sixties, and the Nicaraguan government chased the contras into Honduras. If you believe that Israel should exist as a state, you cannot deny its right to act like a state. There is no reason to believe...
...developed his wry, sweet and irrepressibly meshuggeneh visions in the two great forcing houses of modernism between 1900 and 1925: Paris and Russia. As a student in St. Petersburg up to 1910, he came under the wing of Diaghilev's designer Leon Bakst; an enlightened Jewish patron, Max Vinaver, sent him to Paris that year. He took a studio in a rickety building near the slaughteryards and found that his neighbors were Soutine, Leger and Modigliani. Back in Russia by 1914, Chagall waited out World War I (and was plunged into the Revolution) in the company of Tatlin, Malevich...
Doctors also rely on medication, though cortisone, a mainstay of less experienced physicians, is frowned upon by specialists because it relieves symptoms without correcting the basic problem. Surgery is generally a last resort because it may leave scar tissue that can interfere with agility. Rock Drummer Max Weinberg, who underwent seven operations on his fingers to keep his hands from clenching, had no such damage. Currently on tour with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, he downs six aspirins a day and does hand warm-up exercises for 45 minutes before a show. Afterward he chills his hands...
...bucket. The one saving grace to this abuse is that it helps fool even the cast into thinking I really am a puppet, including Anne Schedeen, who plays the real-life Kate Tanner, and the guy who plays Willie, this dithery product of Hesitation ( School named Max Wright. He must have mastered the Dramatic Pause (wake me up at half time!) during his years on the stage at places like Yale and Harvard, schools as prestigious as Podunk and Dingaling on Melmac. Listen to him drivel: "There are moments when ALF's reality is so overwhelming, you have to catch...
...original 1949 version of D.O.A., but even they may find this remake engaging. Screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue, who recently updated The Fly, has a gift for polishing up pop cultural artifacts so that they shine like new. And Directors Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, up from rock videos and Max Headroom, have found their own effective approximation of the beloved film noir style...