Word: nameless
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...plot of the movie centers on the character played by Uma Thurman, a nameless woman known only as The Bride, who awakes from a coma four years after she is nearly assassinated at her wedding party by an elite fighting force called the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or DiVAS). Once a part of this group, The Bride—whose DiVAS code name was Black Mamba—sets out now on a mission of revenge, tracking down all of her former compatriots, each of whom is also code-named after a venomous serpent. Her final target, as the title...
Most readers have probably never heard of González Leiva. Indeed, the dissidents who languish in Castro’s jails typically remain nameless and faceless to the American public, despite being 90 miles from our shores. For every Armando Valladares—the Cuban poet who was held for 22 harrowing years before an international campaign helped gained his release in 1982—there are thousands of other brave souls whose pleas were never answered. Human-rights groups estimate that there are currently more than 300 “prisoners of conscience” in Cuba...
...because the word apartheid is never uttered in his novels, and the settings are not necessarily South African. In 1980, when Coetzee's masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians was published, I was in the U.S., living among people who took it as a surreal cowboy story set on some nameless frontier. For me, and for many white South Africans, it was an unbearably painful allegory about our daily lives and moral dilemmas, engaging us on a psychic level so deep and compelling that reading it left one dazed and hypnotized. In my judgement, Barbarians alone was enough to earn Coetzee...
...Thurman is no longer in the early part of her career. She hasn't been in a multiplex movie since The Avengers in 1998 and admits she would like a defining film role. She couldn't have chosen a stranger one than the Bride, the nameless assassin in Kill Bill (the film will be released in two parts; Volume 1 will be out Oct. 10, and Volume 2 arrives in February 2004) whose mission is only slightly more complicated than the title. "It's a movie about a woman who challenges five people to duels. That's pretty much...
...hadn't actually seen it. Between them they stimulated demand. "If you were anyone you wanted to be portrayed, and portrayed by Titian," Jaffé says. "You would look grander, smarter, more imposing than anyone else." The young man who sat for his portrait around 1520 may be nameless now, but he still has plenty of gravitas. Yet Titian's virtuoso brushstrokes weren't just decoration; they flowed from his identification with the subject. "Titian" reunites for the first time in over 400 years a set of mythological scenes based on descriptions of ancient art by 3rd century B.C. writer...