In addition to this Weir also suggests that by his use of the phrase forced widows, Cavendish was insinuating that George was a rapist.

Weir and Jerman also argue that their location on churches, and their ugliness by mediæval standards, suggests that they were used to represent female lust as hideous and sinfully corrupting.

David Weir has argued in Anarchy and Culture that anarchism only had some success in the sphere of cultural avant-gardism because of its failure as a political movement ; cognizant of anarchism's claims to overcome the barrier between art and political activism, he nevertheless suggests that this is not achieved in reality.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

Weir then took up a position with the Commonwealth Film Unit ( later renamed Film Australia ), for which he made several documentaries, including a short documentary about an underprivileged outer Sydney suburb, Whatever Happened to Green Valley, in which residents were invited to make their own film segments.

On 14 June 1982, Weir was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia ( AM ) for his service to the film industry.

Child star Lukas Haas received wide praise for his debut film performance ; Witness also earned Weir his first Oscar nomination as Best Director, and was his first of several films to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Weir's next film, Dead Poets Society ( 1989 ) was a major international success, with Weir again receiving credit for expanding the acting range of its Hollywood star.

The film was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Weir, and launched the acting careers of young actors Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard.

Green Card was a box-office hit but was regarded as less of a critical success, although it helped Depardieu's path to international fame, and Weir received an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay.

The Truman Show was both a box office and a critical success, receiving positive reviews and numerous awards, including three Academy Award nominations: Andrew Niccol for Best Original Screenplay, Ed Harris for Best Supporting Actor, and Weir himself for Best Director.

Finally, Alison Weir, again drawing on the Fieschi Letter, has recently argued that Edward II escaped his captors, killing one in the process, and lived as a hermit for many years ; in this interpretation, the body in Gloucester Cathedral is of Edward's dead captor.

Peter Weir has the record for the most nominations yet to win best Director for someone still alive, 4 nominations.

Places, famous or infamous, that Kalgoorlie is noted for include its water pipeline, designed by C. Y. O ' Connor and bringing in fresh water from Mundaring Weir near Perth, its Hay Street brothels, its two-up school, the goldfields railway loopline, the Kalgoorlie Town Hall, the Paddy Hannan statue / drinking fountain, the Super Pit and Mount Charlotte lookout.

However, only about ten minutes of footage was filmed before the rights were optioned to Peter Weir for his more famous feature-length version, and the production was permanently shelved.

Feldman's first choice of director was Peter Weir, but he was involved in pre-production work for The Mosquito Coast and passed on the project.

Then, as financial backing for The Mosquito Coast fell through, Weir became free to direct Witness, which was his first American film.

The latter two have dams ( Canning Dam and Mundaring Weir ) which provide a sizeable part of the potable water requirements for Perth and the regions surrounding.

The cities of Baxter Springs, Columbus, Galena, Scammon, and Weir are considered governmentally independent and are excluded from the census figures for the townships.

* Weir, D., Noyes, D. Raising Hell How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story, ( Chapter on " Let Them Eat est.

Roy Oswalt, a major league pitcher for the Texas Rangers, and his wife Nicole live in Weir.

* Olympic Figure Skater Johnny Weir refers to Quarryville as his " hometown ", living there for many of his childhood years.

It's pretty to look at and it contains a number of good performances, but there is something exhausting about its neat balancing of opposing manners and values ... One might be made to care about all this if the direction by the talented Australian film maker, Peter Weir ... were less perfunctory and if the screenplay ... did not seem so strangely familiar.

Where his friend Weir might paint six canvases in a season, Hassam would do forty.

Two opposing stone boulders seen today are a trace of once the beautiful Quipot Weir playing with the graceful flow of Suage River which can cast its angry might at any moments notice.

In the concert documentary film, released in 2003, Danko can be seen intoxicated participating in a drunken jam session with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Joplin while singing " Ain't No More Cane.

The music itself would be re-used in other films ( most notably the track " L ' Enfant " in The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ) by Peter Weir ; the melody of same ( in marching band format ) can also be heard at the beginning of the 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies scene in the film Chariots of Fire ) and television commercials ( the track " Hymne ", used in Barilla pasta commercials in Italy and Ernest & Julio Gallo wine ads in the US ).

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

The book tells the ( fictional ) story of the rise to fame of Dan Weir (' Weird '), a bass guitar player in a rock and roll band called Frozen Gold, and of his struggles to be happy now that he is rich and famous.

The centenary of Britten ’ s birth will be held between November 2012 and November 2013, and the 2013 Festival, the 66th, will feature a new production by Tim Albery of Britten ’ s opera, Peter Grimes, the complete Church Parables in Orford Church and new works by Harrison Birtwistle, Wolfgang Rihm, Judith Weir, Magnus Lindberg and Richard Rodney Bennett.

The Archaean granites and gneisses of the Yilgarn Craton form the high ground of the Perth Hills and can be observed in road cuts, with good examples in the Mundaring Weir area.

His assistant Ed Weir replaced Schulte and won five addition indoor conference titles before moving on to be the assistant athletic director.

Weir asked repeatedly to be let back into the band, promising to step up his playing, and eventually the rest of the band relented.

In August 2010, Martin Bashir left Nightline to be an anchor on NBC and MSNBC, he was subsequently replaced by Bill Weir.

The new Air Minister, Sir William Weir, under pressure to find a position for Trenchard, offered him command of the yet to be formed Independent Air Force which was to conduct long-range bombing operations against Germany.

Screenwriters David Arata, D. B. Weiss, and Weir co-wrote the screenplay but in May 2007, Gibson commented on his personal blog that he believed Weir would not be proceeding with the project.

John McGlashan resigned to be replaced by Jim Weir who after a mixed start eventually rallied the team to a spirited last few weeks of the season.

This is alluded to in two sketches ; once when he rants that a position should be created in the UK Government for an ' All Round Good Guy ' which should be awarded to the " Hibs player Mickey Weir ", and also when he reads the news and takes a moment to celebrate a Hibernian victory over their great city rivals, Heart of Midlothian FC.

However, David Michael Kotz and Fred Weir, authors of Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System, argue that militarisation cannot be the prime cause for the economic stagnation, as military spending had historically been high ( 17 % of GNP in 1950 ) and had increased on par with economic growth without previously destabilising the economy.

Weir will be performing with the original cast from The Fast Show ( with the exception of Mark Williams ) in six online-only episodes due to launch on the 10th of November sponsored by the Fosters brand.

The Auber and Weir references in the poem may be to two contemporaries of Poe: Daniel François Esprit Auber, a composer of sad operatic tunes, and Robert Walter Weir, a painter of the Hudson River School famous for his landscapes.

Weir consulted Merz, and the result was the Electricity ( Supply ) Act 1926, which recommended that a " national gridiron " supply system be created.

The 2008 / 09 pre-season was very quiet and few new signings were made ; rumblings of discontent and rumours of behind the scenes fighting were proved to be true as boss Jim Weir was sacked by the Board after a 2 – 1 defeat to Cowdenbeath with six months still to run on his contract.