Word: mohawks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With so much violence, and so many landscapes,and music so loud, the movie entirely fails tohang together. There are forced political moments,like an arbitrary lacrosse game among Mohawk andwhite children or the villainous Huron Magua (WesStudi, who does a pretty good job) taking time outto name the wrongs whites have done him. There areexplosions and waterfalls and panthers lurking inthe bushes. There is even a canoe chase. Howoverdone is it? The credits list ten tattooartists...
...sight of the spot where Jan Palach set himself on fire for Czechoslovak freedom in 1969, the spot where Havel laid flowers in 1989 and was arrested for the deed. Now a deadpan sword swallower resembling Leonid Brezhnev draws a crowd of American children, and punkers with spiked Mohawk haircuts wander the medieval lanes...
...stunt he tried jumping into a pool from a balcony and landed on the deck, breaking both arms. Six months later, in 1988, Nelson Diebel won his first national title. Later he tattooed the Olympic rings on his hip and arrived at the '89 nationals with a double Mohawk -- one side dyed black, the other white. "Nelson's the wildest, most accident-prone human being who ever lived," says his coach, Chris Martin. "But you can't beat his talent." During the U.S. Olympic trials last March, Diebel swam the second fastest 100-m breaststroke in history...
...Quebec government declared these people -- the Cree, the Mohawk, the Huron, the Algonquin and others -- distinct nations, and offered them a path to self-government within Quebec's boundaries. But if you think that 20,000 Cree and Inuit are going to leave Quebec and take two-thirds of its territory...
...French commercial (also aired in the U.S.) in which a lion and a tawny woman climb up opposite sides of a mountain, and at the peak the woman outroars the lion for a bottle of Perrier. Another winner was a spectacular English spot for Reebok sneakers in which a Mohawk steelworker sprints and leaps atop an Atlanta skyscraper. The ad is so scary that it was banned from British TV. Overall, Britain won the most Lions -- 20 compared with the U.S.'s 14. Australia and Spain tied for third place with nine awards each...