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You saved me the trouble. I was starting to wonder if there was a usage for strident that I was not familiar with. Perhaps some kind of slang or gangsta? Oh! I know; I'll demonstrate the appropriate usage of the term for you: It is instructive to me that Mel has his wits about him. He was arguably on equal creativity in his filming of Passion as in his promotion of same. He created a cinematographic masterpiece and then played the MSM like a fine musical instrument in marketing it. Now, he's up to another project, in which the usual critics are apparently unable to link his money to his ostensible accomplishment. Fascinating. They want to find something to whine about, but he might have already taught them a lesson: when their strident denouncement of his intentions during the filming of The Passion of the Christ ended up giving him free publicity -- and probably a larger audience: just the opposite of what his detractors would have desired had happened. I'll never forget how the calumnies began full throttle at the very START of his shooting, a curious anomaly I suspect is an historical first. He forged on ahead, undaunted. Now, a property aquisition by a foundation his name is not even on makes the MSM tremble. What a joke! How many parcels of real estate change hands every day and it doesn't make any headlines?