Word: spartanic
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...Bandits in the Hills You have allowed TIME to become a publicizing medium for the propaganda of a dying movement, the New People's Army (N.P.A.) [Feb. 5]. Your photos tried to conjure an image of the N.P.A. rebels as Spartan revolutionaries, although most Filipinos know them to be bandits who survive through pillaging, extortion and coercion. And, oh yes, through naive media people. Isabelo Gatmaitan Manila
When filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker hit the road with Bob Dylan in 1965 to shoot a documentary of the musician's tour of England, he was unaware that he would make history. For one, Pennebaker barely knew who Dylan was. In addition, he couldn't have predicted that his Spartan black-and-white documentary, which eschews traditional storytelling techniques such as narration and interviews, would be hailed as the greatest rock documentary of all time. Forty years after its debut, Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back has been lovingly remastered and will be released this week as a two-disc...
...season, both netminders took turns in the lineup, with Donato refusing to pick a permanent starter.But after Tobe allowed four goals—three of which were scored on the power play—in a 5-2 loss to CCHA powerhouse Michigan State on Dec. 29, the former Spartan did not start another game until the consolation game of the Beanpot on Feb. 12.“I had a couple of rough outings the first two games, but I had about a seven- or eight-game stretch where I was playing well,” Tobe says...
...they’re both screaming and veins are bulging out of their necks. If you could somehow distill the purified testosterone from both of those men and put it into digital film, you would have the basic ingredients of this near-perfect trailer. Every time I watch the Spartan king yell “Madness? This—is—SPARTA!” I feel as though my balls have been ripped off. And I like it. Black Snake Moan Celluloid Gold This is two minutes and twenty five seconds of pure, hard-core, home-cooked...
...Government aid over the years, and millions more contributed privately by Jews in America and elsewhere. ''The Israelis have produced a modern country -- doorknobs and hinges, plumbing fixtures, electrical supplies, chamber music, airplanes, teacups,'' Saul Bellow has written. ''It is both a garrison state and a cultivated society, both Spartan and Athenian. It tries to do everything, to understand everything, to make provision for everything . . . These people are actively, individually engaged in universal history. I don't see how they can bear it.'' Still, as Israel turns 40, it seems unhappy, agitated and exhausting. The idealistic founding energies have matured...