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It was the fact that there was an aweful lot of Communists vs McCarthy stuff in the movie hidden behind the quasi-historical elements.
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I wonder how Basterds would be taken on its own, not as Tarantino's grown-up quasi-historical epic.
Warhound 2009
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I wonder how Basterds would be taken on its own, not as Tarantino's grown-up quasi-historical epic.
fourfour: 2009
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But finding myself in the right place at the right time – in theUS, at my Dad's house, horribly jet-lagged and sprawled in front of a television at 11am Eastern Daylight Time – I was happy enough to monitor this quasi-historical event while wearing an expression that betrayed nohint of emotion.
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Kurtzhau, age 4, has come into some 1/72 scale WWII figures, so we've ... um ... ended up devising an entirely educational and numeracy supporting game based on simulating quasi-historical military confrontation scenarios.
Ratatatatat! zornhau 2008
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It was the fact that there was an aweful lot of Communists vs McCarthy stuff in the movie hidden behind the quasi-historical elements.
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Getty Images San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers But in these two cases, there is something statistically interesting, if not quasi-historical, going on.
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Judging from the ready resort of modern groups such as Hutus to genocide, and its ubiquitous depiction and tacit advocacy in ancient quasi-historical texts such as the Bible and Iliad, I dismally speculate that wholesale extermination's the default means for humans groups to rid themselves of competitors.
If Spike Lee had directed Avatar..? Steven Barnes 2009
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Just as in Harris's first blockbuster, "" Fatherland, '' which was premised on Nazi Germany's victory in World War II, this quasi-historical backdrop is a nifty device.
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At Thanksgiving, Fox will release the Disney-ish "Anastasia," a quasi-historical fairy tale with Meg Ryan doing the princess's voice and a Rasputin whose curse on the royal family causes the Russian Revolution.
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