Word: standing
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Maybe Watchmen is one of those cult films that don't expand beyond the true believers. It probably won't make even alternative-movie history. Containing its own popcorn breaks--hit the concession stand whenever Dan and Laurie start their mooning--this ambitious picture is a thing of bits and pieces. But oh, those beautiful bits. And wow, those magnificent pieces...
...need to worry less about fixing the party and more about what we can do to fix our country. Every chance where we can agree with the President and new Congress, we should. But where we disagree--with spending, with tax increases, with the stimulus plan--we need to stand up on principle and say what we would do differently...
...words of Theodore Roosevelt, issued in the midst of a world war, may still be apt in our present troubles. "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public." Roosevelt said this, of course, when he was no longer President...
...Kjaerstad makes it easier, instead, to simply laugh at and pity Jonas’ weaknesses in the face of his environment. Ultimately, one can’t help but sympathize with a man who sacrifices everything he loves in search of a dream: “He could not stand it: first to seduce, to conquer, an entire nation and then… to stand naked in all his vacuity before his wife, the woman he loved, the only person he really wished to conquer; he was a conquistador who had won everything, then suddenly found himself confronted with...
...Spurred by an unwillingness to once again stand idly by as his team faltered, Perlman worked tirelessly to ready himself for 2009. After completing rehab last May, he returned to New England to test that readiness on the biggest summer stage in college baseball: the Cape Cod Baseball League...