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Although participants suggested several courses of action—ranging from ignoring the protest completely to having a concurrent pro-gay celebration—those present agreed that their response would be non-violent and respectful...
...this day two decades ago, Polish patriots took on the world’s largest army and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, eventually toppling the Communist regime in Warsaw. They achieved this feat not through violent revolution, but through a series of negotiations that became famous as the Round Table talks. The defeat of Communism in Poland—which was soon followed by its total collapse in Eastern Europe and, in 1991, the Soviet Union itself—should properly be regarded as one of the greatest triumphs in European history...
...2003’s “Here Comes the Indian” and 2004’s “Sung Tongs” in particular—“Strawberry Jam” was a masterpiece whose dense soundscapes alternately grinned and strained with near-violent anxiety. To date, that album is Animal Collective’s zenith.The band’s seventh album, “Merriweather Post Pavilion,” finds the quartet—temporarily reduced to a trio due to guitarist Josh “Deakin” Dibb?...
...movies!” as someone screamed to a woman on the shuttle one day). The first and probably most poignant one I saw was “Bronson,” which stylistically told the true story of England’s “most violent criminal.” The performance was a tour de force by lead Tom Hardy, and the combination of his intense acting with a loud soundtrack of Wagner and Pet Shop Boys created a “Clockwork Orange”—on a particularly violent day—ambience...
...Schrader gives his characters accounts for the differences in ideological philosophy that arise: in “Blue Collar,” the street-talking factory workers were read by audiences as spearheads for communism; in “Mishima,” the militaristic title character reaches a violent end in part due to his right-wing politics. This “spiritual integrity,” however, doesn’t mean the characters are always completely honest. “I love the unreliable narrator,” Schrader says.Though Schrader said he rarely watches his work...