Word: conqueror
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...been a week of dangerous, teetering triumph for Gamal Abdel Nasser, the new Alexander of the Eastern Mediterranean, a conqueror who has never marched beyond his balcony, a soldier whose victories are made from military defeats, a victor who has never won a war or even a battle. By marshaling the emotions of the Arab masses, articulating their angriest aspirations, stirring their most vituperative violence by his press and radio, and plotting to subvert rulers everywhere, Nasser had achieved his pinnacle. This vigorous and magnetic figure, who wears Western-style sports clothes but kneels toward Mecca with the strictest mullah...
...Standing Rock, the combative past survives in surnames. On radio station KLND--that's Lakota, Nakota, Dakota--the news is from Mike Kills Pretty Enemy, the music from Virgil Taken Alive. Last month tribe members gathered near the grave site of Sitting Bull, General George Custer's conqueror, to pray at the graves of long-ago chiefs--Thunderhawk, Rain-in-the-Face, Running Antelope. A package event for tourists? Hardly. The Indians got there on horseback and camped in the cold. In fact, they were not dressed for camcorders. They wore jeans, permanent press and wrap-around shades. When they...
...reports say that by war's end only 20 Jews were still alive in Warsaw. If The Pianist was not a risky choice for the Jury, it was an honorable one, in the tradition of such previous Palme d'Or winners as The Tin Drum, The Mission, Pelle the Conqueror and Farewell My Concubine - films that impose a personal story on a grand, wrenching national canvas. After the award ceremony, the critics massed in righteous annoyance that a film as conventional (though artfully, powerfully made) as Polanski's could win the Palme d'Or, when their favorites were slighted. This...
...could only be called absurd. The plotters were brash and incompetent, while the U.S. stumbled on the sidelines, appearing at times to welcome the overthrow of an elected government. The whole thing lasted only three days, and in the end, the target of the putsch re-emerged as its conqueror: the once and once again leader, President Hugo Ch?vez...
Guys think about their penises a lot (they do, they do) and, as Ensler will tell you, much of Western culture is built around metaphors about the penis as dominator or conqueror. But odd though it is, women rarely think about, let alone talk about, vaginas. When they have, it has often been in big books by the feminist intelligentsia and mostly in the context of a power struggle--vaginas as a target of oppression (Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape), or vaginas as a primal, mysterious force that intimidates men (Simone de Beauvoir...