Word: patrones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tyrant trifecta. Stalin sent her a note praising her film Olympia. Mussolini asked her to make a documentary about the Pontine marshes. And Hitler was her patron for three documentaries about his party, especially Triumph of the Will, which helped define Nazi swagger...
...feel upscale. It's meant to make us feel safe. To the dowager from Concord, "Harvard Square" says homeless people, punks in the Pit and the headache of finding parking. "Harvard Yard" says wide, green spaces, tranquility, and the unobstructed fulfillment of the fetishism of commodities. As one frequent patron of the Square put it, "Why not just put a glass dome over the whole thing and call it a fucking mall...
...lines were long, but that nifty fluorescent laminent they gave me let me waltz into any club that seized my fancy. And when some unfriendly patron began to mosh during one of the concerts, I got him thrown out. Who says Crime doesn...
...govern our lives whenever we check an impulse to explode in love or anger -- when we don't shout at a reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero for our fugitive fantasy egos, Newland Archer is the patron saint of our everyday conscience, the coachman on our journey as the years dissolve into decades and the decades into decay...
...among Palestinians inside the occupied territories. Fed up with the P.L.O.'s failures, young Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank have been radicalized, many of them embracing militant fundamentalist Islam. Conversely, Arafat was compelled toward moderation after the Soviet Union's demise deprived him of a superpower patron, and even more when his mistaken allegiance to Iraq over Kuwait cost him his bankroll from the gulf states. Without money, without visible progress in the two-year-old peace talks he had endorsed, fundamentalism's rise threatened to make him irrelevant...