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Yes, Night will devour Day, but Macbeth's significant meaning here is: under cover of darkness—in reckless defiance of weird authority—he will have his black agents eliminate the bonded progenitor of Scottish kings, along with his only progeny.
The NYT 's lead reports that President Clinton denies that the coffee tapes mandated the appointment of an outside counsel and repeats that the failure to turn over the tapes in a more timely manner was a "simple mistake, not deliberate defiance."
Unmade Beds , Nicholas Barker's " 'real life' feature film," has proudly worn its mongrel status as a "directed" documentary of single life in the big city, employing, in the face of criticism, what amounts to a cackling-punk defiance.
Another Western journalist in Belgrade, José Comas of Spain's El Pa í s , contributed a special article to the Sunday-Monday edition of Le Monde of Paris describing the mounting anger and defiance of the Serb population toward NATO: Many young people, including sworn opponents of Slobodan Milosevic, were saying they would fight to the death over Kosovo.
A truly weird actor who, in Manhunter (1986), made for an eerier Hannibal Lecter than Anthony Hopkins, Cox rules with the kind of settled irritability that suggests why prep schools are petri dishes for acts of adolescence defiance.