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...should we concern ourselves with this hateful tyrant, whose life the movie traces for nearly half a century starting with his immigration to Japan from Korea in 1920? The most obvious reason is that Kim is played by "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, the Japanese actor-director whose blind-swordsman movie Zatoichi won him best-director honors at last year's Venice Film Festival. Shunpei Kim is Kitano's first lead role under another director in more than a decade, and the best performance of an illustrious career. But an equally important force behind what may be this year's best Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close to the Bone | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...appealing humanity in Troy. While cringing at his painful blindness to reality, the viewer wants to smack some sense into him. Yet there is something gripping about his irate desperation and something frightening about the ease with which Troy evolves from confident and optimistic bartender to paranoid resentful tyrant...

Author: By Tony A. Onah and Deborah Pan, S | Title: Film Reviews | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

Though he’s clearly the driving force behind the group, Wareham is hardly a tyrant. This is two-guitar music, and both guitarists, Wareham and Sean Eden, were given plentiful opportunity to shine throughout the set. Eden even stepped to the microphone for “Broken Chair,” revealing himself as a more than able vocalist while giving Wareham a chance to rest his uniquely nasal voice...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Luna’s Light Finally Dims | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...death of anyone,” said Eric R. Trager ’05, the group’s vice president. “That said, we think this is a hopeful day for the Palestinians and Israelis, whose dreams for peace will no longer sabotaged by a tyrant who narcissistically maintained his power against all challenges at the price of thousands of lives on both sides...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Arafat's Health Draws Response | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...like an underdog. But to the extent that the Republicans could turn the Liberal Media into the Establishment enemy, liken themselves to Thomas Paine and Martin Luther, nail their charges to the door, distribute their pamphlets, rally their faithful, it was in the interest of giving their base a tyrant to battle. CBS tied its argument up nicely as well when, acknowledging questions about the authenticity of the documents, it said they were true in spirit. Even the pollsters, with their models and metrics, were at a loss to explain where the race had landed: Gallup had Bush 13 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: BLUE TRUTH, RED TRUTH | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

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