Word: saturnalia
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...their ostensible principles, be any different? She clings to her innocence even after the war, when she is accused of collaboration and is first brutally degraded by the Dutch, then almost murdered by a collaborator who is the last person we suspect of leading a double wartime life. The Saturnalia of liberation is more shocking, more bitterly ironic, to Verhoeven than the grim reaping of wartime and he does not blink at showing them. They are, in fact, the most shocking and subversive and hard to accept of all his images. We didn't want to see people...
...Saturnalia Begin After a 2.2 billion-mile trip, a NASA craft is set to orbit the ringed planet...
...radio and television networks and owns its largest newspaper, will reassert their place atop the tribal hierarchy. The plangent sounds of "When the Wind Blows from Mount Rokko," the Tigers' fight-song, will recede from the department stores. Order will restore itself as it always does after Carnival and Saturnalia (especially in tradition-loving Japan). But by then something may have been achieved that could change the hearts of a country always ready to believe in self-fulfilling cycles. If losers can win and if tigers can fly?well, anything is possible, really...
...nightly saturnalia at Stonewall produce protests that would kick start the modern gay-rights movement? The uprising was inspirited by a potent cocktail of pent-up rage (raids of gay bars were brutal and routine), overwrought emotions (hours earlier, thousands had wept at the funeral of Judy Garland) and drugs. As a 17-year-old cross-dresser was being led into the paddy wagon and got a shove from a cop, she fought back. "[She] hit the cop and was so stoned, she didn't know what she was doing--or didn't care," one of her friends later told...
...past or original intent of a symbol is sufficient, then the gaily decorated tree is “exclusive” of all non-Pagans, as it comes from a pre-Christian Roman tradition (the Romans used green trees lit with candles in their winter Saturnalia festival). The simple fact that many of the stricter Christian sects ban Christmas trees (and Halloween and any other non-Christian assimilation) should be enough to prove this point. Most of the other things associated with Christmas can be traced to 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia—the yule log, carolers...