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...There are other unusual Zombie-isms that set the tone on set - like a serious case of mellow. Yes, the man who made his money howling songs with names like "Pussy Liquor" on stage turns out to be one of those quietly meticulous directors rather than a raving David O. Russell type. "Yelling is stupid," Zombie says, by way of explanation. Oh, and here's another surprise: Mr. Most Cinematic Human Roadkill Scene Ever (in The Devil's Rejects) doesn't like gratuitous violence. "I didn't want to get into this trend of creative ways to kills people...
...Powhatan had multiple military advantages over their guests too. European firearms had serious drawbacks in anything other than open-field fighting. Muskets were so heavy that they had to be set on a tripod before they were aimed. Guns of all sizes, including pistols, were muzzle-loaded, which meant that for every shot an Englishman took, a Powhatan man could loose off five arrows with deadly accuracy while darting from tree to tree for cover...
...great achievement of the civil rights revolution was the dismantling of what the inheritors of Jamestown had instituted. Today a black woman fills one of the most powerful political offices after the presidency, and a black man holds serious promise of becoming the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. Whatever the persisting problems of black Americans--many of which, like a fragile family life and the lack of inheritance, also originated in slavery--it is now incontestable that they belong to America as America belongs to them. In this, America stands far above all other multiethnic Western nations. Nonetheless...
...Pulitzer for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, can't do with words. But he's almost too clever: there's something too cute about The Yiddish Policemen's Union, the kind of cuteness that a really passionate writer drops from time to time when there's serious work to be done. Chabon may be incapable of writing a bad book. But it's still not clear if he can write a great...
Military discipline was a stopgap; serious reform, with long-reaching consequences, was already under way. The London Co. had reorganized itself as the Virginia Co. of London in 1609, and over the next dozen years settlers and backers alike realized the colony could not be run as an overseas mining company or an armed camp. Success would depend on large numbers of people and the steady production of exportable goods. That meant the incentives for living in Jamestown had to be modified...