Word: maximilian
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...filled with idealistic dreams of fraternal love and spontaneous world order. None of the painters in his circle were untouched by anarchist ideas, particularly those of Pyotr Kropotkin. Some, notably Maximilian Luce, were vigorous activists, marked down by the police. Signac was never that militant, but his best friend among critics, Felix Feneon, was always suspected (though this was never proved) of having helped carry out a deadly bomb attack on a fashionable Paris restaurant, Foyot's. Signac never hurt anyone, though he was right in the thick of the closest relationship between political and aesthetic radicalism that the 19th...
...criminals, but on the second wave of cases, of German judges whose complicity was less clear-cut. The courtroom scenes are intense and satisfying, largely because the "other" side (especially Michael Hayden, as the young German defense attorney) is so well represented. And even though the chief accused (Maximilian Schell) confesses his guilt a little too neatly, and the homespun judge (George Grizzard) arrives at the "right" verdict on cue, Mann makes sure the moral journey is not easy. As it never should...