Mr. Refn wraps rape, necrophilia, literal blood baths and a disturbing appearance by Keanu Reeves around brightly colored, fluorescent sets.
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The blood baths that ensue invite us to reflect not only on the moral dimension of revolutionary violence but also on competing loyalties drawn along the lines of class and gender.
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It's been fascinating to see both Mr. Bloom and Mr. Turner endowing animalistic annihilators with leading-man charisma, as audiences splash happily in these productions' blood baths as if they were toddlers in kiddie pools.
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In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, Dr. Johnson and Miami colleagues searched for pro-Islamic State posts each day from mid-2014 until August 2015, mining mentions of beheadings and blood baths in multiple languages on Vkontakte, a Russia-based social media service that is the largest European equivalent to Facebook.
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In 1862 alone, between the blood baths at Shiloh in April and Antietam in September, President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in the District of Columbia, created the indispensable Department of Agriculture — "the people's department," the former boy bumpkin called it — and signed into law a series of westward-facing bills that the secessionist quitters would have never O.K.'d, including the Homestead Act on May 20 and the Pacific Railway Act on July 1.
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Gangrel made his TV debut on the August 16, 1998 episode of Sunday Night Heat, defeating Scott Taylor. He then formed a gothic faction, called The Brood, with Edge and Christian. The Brood became known for their "blood baths", which involved the lights going out for a moment, and when they came back on, the targeted wrestler being covered in blood. The three temporarily joined up with The Undertaker and his Ministry of Darkness faction.
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During the next two decades, Rickard's professional wrestling career would take him to countries throughout the world and many were where in places where professional wrestling had never been promoted before; he would make numerous trips to Australia and Singapore, and wrestle in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and most of the major Pacific Islands including New Hebrides, Western Samoa, American Samoa, Tahiti and Hawaii. He eventually became one of the top wrestlers to compete internationally during the 1960s and 70s and often faced many prominent stars of the era. He was the opponent of many NWA World Heavyweight Champions in bouts outside North America, such as Jack Brisco and Dory Funk Jr., and was also involved in high-profile matches with The Destroyer, André the Giant, Abe Jacobs and King Kong, the latter billed as "the uncrowned Heavyweight Champion of the World". His bouts in Australia against Killer Kowalski were called "real blood baths".
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