Word: sword
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Rock songs lamenting frustrations with place and identity and the double-edged sword of love have never been this danceable and uplifting. Make Up the Breakdown is the sort of album one can listen through in its entirety without ever skipping a song. Have no fear that the ride ends after a brisk 32 minutes—simply press “play” once again. —Sarah L. Solorzano
Never has there been a better moment for the plowshare to supersede the sword. If George Bush and Tony Blair would stay their hand against Iraq, that would give the people in the region the opportunity to solve the problem of Saddam and al-Qaeda. A single shot need not be fired. MAURICE CLYDE Silves, Portugal...
...potential for good. Although the hobbit hero Frodo may have failed to resist the temptation of the magic Ring, it is the slithery Gollum--thought to be nothing more than a nuisance--who ultimately destroys the Ring. Tolkien presents these profound ideas in the guise of an old-fashioned sword-and-sorcery epic. But the characters are as real and human as we are. BLAIR HURLEY Newton, Mass...
...mightier than the sword, but these days it's facing some stiff competition from the personal computer. That's why Logitech created the IO Personal Digital Pen ($199), a new, cyborganic writing implement that bridges the otherwise mutually exclusive worlds of screen and paper. Here's how it works: the IO writes like an ordinary ballpoint pen, but it contains a computer chip that records and remembers every scribble. When you're through writing, the IO downloads your jottings to your PC, where you can either save them as pictures or use handwriting-recognition software to convert them to text...
...Each image is ravishing: clouds rushing over low mountains; a sword point that slo-mo slices through drops of water; lovers curled into each other, sleeping under red silk; a sword fight in a grove of golden leaves that turn red, plum, magenta and fall like fat confetti; soldiers squatting in a circle, caked in clay; a gray landscape of dunes daubed with Cheung's turquoise gown...