Word: righteously
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...Dublin in the '60s, when some girls were sent to convent reformatories, which, at least as shown here, were run by some very nasty nuns. They flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, drive them to despair or madness. The young cast squeezes every righteous tear from the audience. But Magdalene would be a better film - at least, it might have been a good one - if it had shown the nuns, themselves the victims of a cruel, cloistered mind-set, as something more than horror-film sisters of Satan. (One literally carries a pitchfork...
...your CD player: A burned CD that includes Righteous Brothers, show tunes and Disney songs...
Still, Clayton is no self-righteous preacher. He points out that despite their conceptual depth, his mixes aim to move bodies. “I want to maintain the primal force in the mix,” he says, “to create those moments of rupture, when the ground you’re standing or dancing on sort of falls away.” Far removed from the dreary academicism of the likes of DJ Spooky, /rupture builds upon the sonic foundation laid by Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa. Like those hip-hop pioneers, /rupture creates...
...exploited, read the great funeral oration over them by Pericles, one of the most noted politicians of ancient Athens. Recorded in Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, the speech brilliantly sets out reasons why Athenian democracy and openness made Athens superior to all other cities. We are righteous, Pericles argues; therefore, this war is right...
Athens entered the war with Sparta and its allies over a trade dispute. Within a generation, the glories of the Athenian Empire were in ruins, the democracy decimated in that fearsome war. Today, let us remember the dead. And let us remember that America, like Athens, may be righteous, but that does not mean we are right...