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...Coleman says she believes that the Hollywood vision of Rome is based more on 19th and 20th century interpretation than on primary reasearch. She points to the work of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema as feeding the "sword and sandal" look of prior films...
...vintage Pacifica Radio, the hell-raising, corporate-bashing voice of the left for a half-century, with stations in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, in addition to WBAI and the flagship KPFA in Berkeley, Calif. But that voice is now being muffled in a way that would embarrass the sandal-wearing founders of the nonprofit Pacifica Foundation, some of whom now stage their sit-ins in the next life...
DIED. STEVE REEVES, 74, sword-and-sandal-epic actor who pumped his Mr. Universe physique into the popular role of Hercules in a series of films in the 1950s and '60s; of lymphoma complications; in Escondido, Calif...
...bold call for unity and understanding, not a jihad. McCain ended with a story of one of his Vietnamese captors, the "Good Samaritan" who loosened McCain's torture ropes. On Christmas, when McCain stood alone in the courtyard, the captor walked up to him and with his sandal drew a cross in the dirt. "Both prisoner and guard stood wordlessly there for a minute or two, venerating the cross, until the guard rubbed it out and walked away," said McCain, using the third person because Salter was worried that McCain would choke up otherwise. The message was one of tolerance...
...mere words socialism and communism," wrote George Orwell 62 years ago, "draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England." Today it is the bogeymen of globalization and world trade that bring out their own kooky crowd. There they were in Seattle last week: Zapatistas, anti-Nike-ites, butterfly defenders. They joined steelworkers and the Sierra Club, Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan in a giant anti-trade jamboree...