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...Testament scholars have delved deeper into the pagan faiths that competed with early Christianity for followers, Mary's virginity has been challenged from the opposite direction--not as an impossible novelty but as a theme borrowed from the literature of the non-Jewish world. Stephen Patterson of Eden Theological Seminary lists divinely irregular conceptions in stories about not only mythic heroes such as Perseus and Romulus and Remus but also flesh-and-blood figures like Plato, Alexander and Augustus, whose hagiographers reported he was fathered by the god Apollo while his mother slept. "Virgin births were a rather Gentile thing...
...Zhang), with possible connections to the Flying Daggers, they decide to investigate in a beautifully filmed but absurdly serious sequence involving Mei’s ability to hit drums with the long sleeves of her gown. The scene emphasizes the force that can lie beneath superficial appearances, a recurring theme in the film...
...Jin’s yearning to break free of these movements in a personal “revolution” of their own is sweetly idealistic, although the theme of independence only serves to make the movie’s message more generic than its characters and setting. But these ideals are addressed realistically when Mei and Jin eventually discover how difficult it is to break free of these social constraints...
...natural with the dangerous more than the genre necessitates. In one memorable scene, the two main characters are saved from a marauding band of soldiers when an unknown, hidden presence kills their foes using wooden daggers. This shows the landscape’s danger despite its beauty, a theme that echoes Zhang’s deadly shirtsleeves...
...founding member of the band Information Wrecknology, whose theme song contains their motto: “We’ve come back from the future to destroy your computer.” He is also a founding member of Audry DeSmith and the Elegant Touch, which opened for what Pasternack calls “this queer Palestinian Hawaiian hip-hop duo troupe in the basement of Cabot” during his sophomore year. Pasternack is a key player in the Environmental Action Committee and the Resource Efficiency Program, the group that waged this month’s campaign to bring...