Word: woodsmen
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...same as it has been since the militia started in 1995, was to bring together the politics of left and right over speeches, food, live music, and, of course, live ammo. The attendees were a wildly diverse group: young activists and anarchists in black, old beat-up Maine woodsmen with beards to their bellies, retired white-haired college professors, Second Amendment zealots, conservatives, libertarians, Marxists. But they all shared the belief that the U.S. government has lost its moral authority, that both political parties had "degenerated," as one attendee put it, "into whores for wealth and arbiters of empire...
...campaigns to appear on television in recent years, and yet its segments contain more far-reaching wit than almost any other 1 1/2 minutes of must-see TV. Promoting MTV, the Jukka Brothers slots create a kind of Hansel and Gretel-meets-Deliverance world in which coolness-deprived backcountry woodsmen learn about the outside universe only through the bikini-filled music network. When's the movie...
Apparently the hunters who use bait to lure game into an ambush don't know the definition of hunting. It is the pursuit of game; the bears are not supposed to come to the hunters. If the "long hours and exhausting effort" required are too much for these mighty woodsmen, they should take themselves to a shooting gallery--although the targets are rather small. MARY KRESIN New York City...
...attentive looking. He couldn't draw the human figure -- but then neither could his hero, Claude Lorrain. His efforts in that direction, as in a huge painting of Prometheus chained to his rock with the eagle flying in for lunch, were risible. Wisely, he kept his Indians and woodsmen and saints in the far distance...
Some actors have depth but not breadth. You won't see Robert De Niro or Gerard Depardieu (two actors Day-Lewis greatly admires) play Edwardian dandies. But you will see Daniel Day-Lewis play English goons, Irish louts and American woodsmen. In 1986, in the early bloom of his career, his first two major English movies opened back to back in the U.S. He was a purring snob in A Room with a View, an ex-fascist gay punk in My Beautiful Laundrette. Just like that, a chameleonic star was born...