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We had a common goal--the success of the administration in economics--and felt besieged by a common enemy, the media.
Besieged , a film that combines a stunning sensuality with a rigorous economy, you know that you're in the hands of a filmmaker who trusts in the storytelling power of the camera," writes Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times . "Besieged is a thrilling reminder of what moving, personal art the director of The Conformist and The Last Emperor can make when inspired by the right material," says Entertainment Weekly 's Lisa Schwarzbaum.
The familiar story of the Trojan horse appears in Virgil's Aeneid : The horse, with armed men hidden inside, is presented by the Greek enemy to the besieged city of Troy, and brought within its walls.
At the time of Shakespeare's birth in 1564, the English language was besieged by foreign importations--French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and Latin-by-the-yard.
In the early 1940s we were besieged by repl depots (pronounced REPil DEPOZe), GI , and thousands of other acronyms and abbreviations the meaning of which we learned through daily repetition on news broadcasts.