It's turning out to be a star-studded cast for Nolan's third turn with the caped crusader franchise; freshly minted Oscar winner Christian Bale is back as Batman, while Anne Hathaway will play Selena Kyle/Catwoman and Gordon-Levitt's "Inception" cast mate Tom Hardy will play Bane, another villain.
Beck identifies the plant in Chapter IV.77, which is said to grow in large quantities in Italy, as "Aconitum napellus L. (Another kind of leopard's bane) Wolfsbane," where "it is different from the one before it" (Leopard's bane, IV.76).
It can be eaten but is poisonous when consumed with alcohol – hence another common name, tippler's bane.
That was the Native American's bane: They fought amongst one another.
On a recent North Carolina public radio discussion about college admission, I and another guest mentioned "helicopter" and "snowplow" parents, the bane of teachers, professors, and college admission officers everywhere.
Amazingly, however, checking out "sherpas," I promptly found a single Pemba in my search, unfortunately with ― the bane of a PI's life ― not another piece of information.
The seemingly-ubiquitous "Who wore it best" feature – pitting one star against another in a frocked-upn stand-off – is no doubt the bane of every celebrity wardrobe circa right now.
Hardy meanwhile adds another heavyweight role to a roster of psychopaths including Charles Bronson and Bane from The Dark Knight Rises, as well as the Kray twins in a forthcoming film.
If he does join the cast, he'll be teaming up with another 'Inception' star-turned-villain, Tom Hardy, who is set to play Bane in the third caped crusader film from Nolan.
Then as now, a healthy civil society — the connections of free citizens to one another through the press, informal associations, advocacy organizations and otherwise — is the bane of authoritarianism.
