Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tigers carved by the Goldis people, who revered the tiger as an ancestor and as god of the wild regions. In Hindu mythology the goddess Durga rides the tiger. And Chang Tao-ling, a patriarch of the Chinese philosophy of Taoism, also mounts a big cat in his quest to fight evil and seek the essence of life. In the English-speaking world nearly every schoolchild who has ever studied poetry is familiar with William Blake's attempt to frame with words the tiger's "fearful symmetry." India's Valmik Thapar, a student of tiger lore, says British and Dutch...
...immediacy of the film is impressive; as Pauline Kael wrote in her review, the film almsot seems to play itself out in a medieval present. At first there is a temptation to mock the seriousness of the film and the self-importance of the Knight's quest, which at times appears like a remnant of 1950s existentialist philosophy; but the images in "The Seventh Seal" are so hypnotically charged that one is pulled in and held fast...
Bachrach accused Barrett of turning on his former political ally, current Senate President William Bulger, in his quest for the governor's seat...
...potential brilliance is noticeably ignored in the lighting scheme. To the set Emily Baehr and Rosetta Lee add an eye-catching array of elegant gowns and tails for the cast, though leave your modern sensibilities about hairdos at the door--no woman's head is left untouched in the quest for historical accuracy...
...quest began with HOLLIS. I ran a title search for Hustler: nothing. Juggs: "Sex": ordered but not received at Widener and Schlesinger. Playgirl: nothing. Honcho: the search produced "Honcho Goshi Yakuchu," a book by Eino Kano. But that didn't help...