Word: milles
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...Dead Man," which is set "between 120 and 130 years ago," is the story of a meek accountant, William Blake (Johnny Depp), who leaves his fiancee and Cleveland for a job in the wild, wasted West. He finds the usual Western movie staples there, crossing the tyrannic mill owner (Robert Mitchum), sleeping with Thell (Mili Avital), the hooker with the heart of gold, and shooting her no-good lover Charlie(Gabriel Byrne) when guntoting Charlie finds the two of them in bed. From there, however, the Western idiom begins to unravel as our hero, with a bullet in his heart...
...common refrain expressed among the crowds snaking around Sotheby's last week was the desire "to buy a piece of history." These were not, by and large, run-of-the-mill collectors, people who amass hordes of stuff centered on a particular interest or obsession. Nor were most of them there in the hope of turning a profit later on their acquisitions. Bruce Wolmer, editor in chief of Art & Auction magazine, says of the high-priced Jackie items, "Most of them will probably not hold their value over the long haul. They won't lose it completely; they...
Rudenstine's critics, such as Kenan Professor of Government Mansfield, recognize the value of diversity in intellectual discourse. Rudenstine's report cites both John Milton and John Stuart Mill, who argued for diversity of opinion as a necessity in the pursuit of truth...
...April again, which means Jan and I have just returned to Mill Valley from another buying trek through the Annapurna, an ordeal that has left us spent but elated. As always, you, our valued catalog customers, were never far from our thoughts--especially the evening we lingered over jasmine tea with a Mahayana Buddhist monk at the Four Winds Monastery, perched precariously above a roaring tributary of the Ganges. As we sipped to the rhythmic whirl of prayer wheels, I in my all-cotton, breathable Sahib Gear[TM] Punting Pants, Jan in her wind-resistant Amelia Earhart Aviator...
...truth is just the opposite. It is easy to indulge "other significant values" than excellence and to pretend that nothing has happened and that our patron saint John Stuart Mill would smile on us. What is hard is to sustain excellence against the temptation of other values that appear to be more significant...