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...More potent similarities can be found between 300 and the R-rated film with the all-time highest opening-weekend gross. Consider: It's the beyond-bloody saga of an ancient king who leads a high-minded rebellion against a corrupt hierarchy, who endures extraordinary physical abuse before dying nobly, and whose name has been praised throughout history. In other words, 300 is The Passion of the Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Reasons Why 300 Is a Huge Hit | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...cliché or evidence that even those who take it upon themselves to analyze gaffes are still subject to perpetrating them. I agree with Kinsley that we should all be able to shrug off the stupid things people say (or write), but I found his use of a potent image of slavery in this context to be ironic, to say the least. Michael Zimmer Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...cliché or evidence that even those who take it upon themselves to analyze gaffes are still subject to perpetrating them. I agree with Kinsley that we should all be able to shrug off the stupid things people say (or write), but I found his use of a potent image of slavery in this context to be ironic, to say the least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 2007 | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...Just as in China's stock exchanges, the local political market will eventually turn to reflect fundamental laws. The Australian electorate is ultimately conservative. Issues such as the war in Iraq and the five-year Guant?namo incarceration of David Hicks may be hurting Howard now, but they're not potent enough to kill his government in a real election, expected in the spring. In any case, the almost pathologically cautious Howard will start executing more of his master plan to win election No. 5. Those news professionals who are now tumbling out Rudd's backstory and his ideas for fixing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Bennelong, He's More Middle Than Mean | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...stage was home to some of dance's biggest names, including Galina Ulanova, who danced the definitive Romeo and Juliet in the 1950s, and her contemporaries, the couple Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev. During the height of the cold war, it remained one of the Soviet Union's most potent exports. Beautiful and mysterious, the Russian dancers' sleek lines and avant-garde choreography dazzled Westerners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retaking Center Stage | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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