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...focus on the system of feudalism in Scotland, this one takes a different approach. “Our idea is that Scotland is very poor—there are no bards or balls or tapestries,” Carmichael says, “just a lot of regicide and rebellion and wearing your mail shirt to sleep. In contrast, the witches are these sort of gaudy and fabulous women—with a really frightening edge.” The witches can move between the real and supernatural worlds and so represent something that Macbeth is missing in his world...
...York Times op-ed piece, Hussein, believing Iraq could dominate its larger neighbor, started a bloody eight-year war with Iran that decimated his army and almost caused his government to fall. By 1988, the final year of the war against Iran, Iraq was riven with rebellion; only Hussein’s singular ferocity in dealing with domestic unrest, as exemplified by his murder of thousands of Kurds with poison gas, prevented his dictatorship from falling...
...commercial raising of fish--is being touted as a "blue revolution," a seagoing version of the Green Revolution that vastly multiplied agricultural output in underdeveloped countries. But just as the Green Revolution sparked concerns about its reliance on pesticides and chemical fertilizers, so has the blue revolution provoked a rebellion among scientists and environmentalists who fear that the industry, if left unregulated, could wreak havoc in oceans and estuaries. "We are not against aquaculture," says Langer, "but we are against the way it is being done...
...twisted, figurative elements begin. The 1947 series entitled Way of the Cross, with its elaborate, twisted, gold-painted forms, is the most obvious connection to the Baroque alluded to in the show's title. Soon after, Fontana began to puncture holes in painted canvases. While an apparent act of rebellion, the stabs were really just a logical outgrowth of his quest to blur the lines between sculpture and painting, and open up new dimensions for each. The principal objective was to cleverly occupy, divide and utilize space rather than to represent the world. In a technique he called "Spatial Concept...
...Chechnya has been ongoing, with large numbers continuing to die on both sides. And the fact that a heavily armed group of this size was able to travel undetected from the Caucasus to the capital may increase Russian skepticism of the efficacy of military efforts to extinguish the Chechen rebellion...