Word: swinish
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...original, Leonidas (Phantom of the Opera's Gerald Butler) goes to the swinish holy men, the Ephors, for permission to wage a defense against the million-man army of the Persian monarch Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro, from Lost). The oracle waffles, but Leonidas, saying he's just going out for a stroll with his private guards, leaves his wife Gorgo (The Brothers Grimm's Lena Headey) and leads his loyal band to their desperate and storied destiny. He might have triumphed, if the homunculus Ephialtes (Andrew Tiernan, from British TV) had not betrayed the Greeks and told Xerxes their strategy...
...Anything” doesn’t stir you, you might be dead. The first few bars of the song, which were truly well-positioned last in the set, descended on the crowd like the mythical Circe’s spell, transforming tired and overheated twentysomethings into a roiling swinish mass oinking-along for their mother’s teat (in this case, keyboardist Spencer Krug’s vocals). If only the middle of the concert had maintained the energy from the opening or closing numbers. Technical issues were part of the problem, but the band?...