Word: slave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when you hit someone that way, woman or dog (backhand, I meant), it's as if you're deliberately minimizing her, pushing her away, treating her as if she were a slave...
...became more impassioned than I had seen him in a while. In no way, he shouted, is a dog like a slave. He had studied the master-slave relationship, and had its nuances down pat. Also, he has a dog. I've never had the privilege. I had to admit his line of reasoning was compelling...
...instead, everyone's too busy to think straight. There's no reason to tan in the morning and slave away in the libraries at night. Our fate is predestined--we get to work...
...film's titlefrom the language of the gypsies, the story dealswith the protagonist who is "balamos," meaningcondemned to wander forever. While searching forthee magic horse, he rides into the world of theimagination. Transformed into a vampire thatdrinks horse's blood, he travels in antiquity. Hebecomes a prophet and a slave before climbingMount Olympus. The exceptional poetic images erasethe line between reality and fantasy...
...matriarch of the family (Judith Malina) is tradition's slave. When she dies, Catherine rids her house of the dark ornaments of Catholicism, deciding to become a middle-class housewife more in tune with the times. The strongest tie is between grandmother and grand-daughter, who have never known each other, but who share a spirit which bypasses the middle-of-the-road Catherine. Teresa reclaims her grandmother's exigent religious fanaticism. But religion liberates Teresa from her present life, instead of tying her down...