Word: resister
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...practical steps to organize potential supporters. Less interested in acting decisively on history than in acting in it, he becomes the unnamed co-conspirator in his own destruction. Arrested and placed on show trial before a revolutionary tribunal, he refuses to fight or flee, since he is unable to resist a performer's apotheosis: a public defense of his life and opinions in a courtroom...
Young did not resist. Through a blur of pain and fear, feeling the blade of his knife scraping up and down her back, she tried to keep a conversation going. "I quickly decided that if I lived through this, I was going to know as much about him as possible," recalls Young, 36, an emergency-room nurse who had often treated victims of rape but never imagined it could happen to her. "I kept putting my hands all over him, trying to feel for moles or scars or some identifying mark...
...York City, Kirby operates out of his father's wood-paneled gold-carpeted office in a 175-year-old white clapboard house in Morristown, N J The family owns 43% of Alleghany stock, and Kirby once called IDS the "crown jewel of [our] business affairs. He may resist parting with that jewel at anything less than a royal price...
...well-dressed congregation of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles erupts with the same chant that has resounded in the Delta country of Mississippi, in Chicago, in Atlanta. It is a rising cry that the self-styled country preacher seems less and less likely to resist. Run, Jesse, run! Run, Jesse...
...those directors who resist marching single file on the genre treadmill, the way can be difficult. Donald Richie, an American critic who has lived in Japan since 1946, enumerates the obstacles: "First of all, the Japanese banks can rarely be prevailed upon to make loans for films; they're as cautious as the big studios. And even if an independent film is financed and completed, there are few places to show it, since most moviehouses are owned by the major studios, which naturally want to keep the market cornered." Directors must become studio outlaws, raising money from independent sources...