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...zeal to capture souls remains. "I do want to say things in these films," he explains. "I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response." Gilliam is proud when he hears stories like the one the rock singer David Crosby told him: that The Fisher King had freed him from feeling guilty about his girlfriend's death in a car crash. "But there's a dangerous side to affecting people," says the director. The Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy...
...Sachs was the main promoter and was a great collector himself and persuaded other people to collect Degas,” said Cohn. “He had many students, so it wasn’t just that Harvard became a holder but also spread the missionary zeal...
...Vason was 24 when he tried to bring Christianity to Tonga. Burling was just a year younger when he brought the country his own gift of surfing - nothing so profound, of course, though along with golf there's no other sport that stirs such zeal in its disciples. And Burling wants to keep spreading the word. Though a shortage of boards and passable surf spots will limit surfing's growth on the Friendly Islands, "If a kid comes up and asks me to teach him to surf," says Burling, "I'm never going to say no." With salt in their...
...miles from my base. At first, we had no idea of what had caused the terrific shock and the awesome drone. We refused to accept the fact that Japan was barely hanging on, and pretending to be unshaken by the bomb, we went about our tasks with as much zeal as before...
...around," according to his classmates. A deeper look tells a darker story that is becoming sadly familiar in Britain and the rest of Europe: of a disaffected younger generation drifting into radicalism under the blind eyes of immigrant parents, slowly giving up more of their lives to groups whose zeal and camaraderie offer them a sense of purpose. There they are talent-spotted by jihadists for deeper indoctrination - and finally groomed for murder. In Leeds, the nexus for their slide over the edge appears to have been a youth outreach project that was an offshoot of the government-funded Hamara...