Word: sword
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...difficult in the way it was for Joan Rivers or Phyllis Diller. Being a woman in a very male-dominated business absolutely formed the stage personality those two women had. I don't think it did with me. It is kind of a double-edged sword. There were times - the first time I did the show at the Connection - if I had to wait around to be included in a way that wasn't gender-biased onstage, I never would have made it. But it does have a sort of Special Olympics feel...
...Flash forward to Hannibal at 13 in France. He lives in the chateau of his uncle Robert and Robert's Japanese wife, Lady Murasaki. They are sweet to the boy, who is intoxicated by Lady M's silks and fragrances, and her tutorial interest in him, and her impressive sword collection. (He always loved cutlery.) After she is grossly insulted by the boorish local butcher, chivalrous Hannibal takes one of those swords and does the butcher's work on him: slashes and slices the pig up, then eviscerates and beheads him, leaving the carcass in the sun and taking...
...midst of samurai. Leto wields a katana while wearing black fingerless gloves. Two servants ask the Emperor what he wants most in the world; his answer is 30 Seconds to Mars. The video is an exhausting 12 minutes long: five of tortured, solemn Leto, and the rest of sword fighting and distant mountains. The fight scenes in “From Yesterday” are well-shot, with frequent slow-motion zooms and lots of jumping. The landscape is well-shown with lush shots and the bright costumes and intricate formations make nice eye candy. But these are only brief...
...China, Qui Chengwei was imprisoned for life last year after tracking down and stabbing Zhu Caoyuan, a fellow player of a popular online role-playing game who had stolen his (completely virtual) sword and sold it in-game for around $1000 in real money. Since there are as yet no legal protections for in-game property—despite the existence of mature financial markets in these online worlds—Chengwei took justice into his own hands, and Caoyuan died by the (all-too-physical) sword...
...Christianity as ancestors of Abraham. In marked contrast to the nasty historical quote he'd cited in Regensburg, the Pope referred to a warm 11th century meeting of Pope Gregory VII and a Muslim prince. Still smarting from Regensburg, Bardakoglu told the Pope: "The so-called conviction that the sword is used to expand Islam in the world and growing Islamophobia hurts all Muslims...