By turns playful and fierce, Packer alters mercurially from a "woman warrior" like Joan of Arc to a bashful young Juliet to a despairing Lady Macbeth, to name but a few of the most familiar.

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Both the composition and the color of the images are stirringly beautiful, but they feel loaded with symbolism and sentiment: an emaciated man swaying with exhaustion during an interminable roll call appears to be experiencing a kind of transcendent ecstasy, like Joan of Arc on the pyre.

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In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

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Indianapolis label Joyful Noise has manufactured a number of cassette box-sets, including ones for Joan of Arc, of Montreal, and Dinosaur Jr.

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It certainly did on the day a few years ago, when a group of his supporters broke away from his annual May Day Joan of Arc parade in Paris.

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Older children who have outgrown the running-in-circles phase can plot an outing to an historic statue (choose from Joan of Arc or Winston Churchill, among others) or a home state street.

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Both new entries in the Top 10 are silent - Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera at eight, and Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc at nine.

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When a champion for atheism appeared, multitudes came out of the woodwork to embrace her as their Joan of Arc.

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