Word: beards
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...roiling Yangtze River. In the middle of a vast flotilla of two-masted sailing vessels is the Emperor's ship, identified by the yellow standard at the stern and the five-clawed dragon on the side. In a horseshoe-backed chair on the deck, Kangxi sits calmly stroking his beard. For all his achievements in scholarship, empire building and propaganda, the Kangxi Emperor had one major failing. After 60 years in power, he died without naming an heir among his 20 sons (by various wives, of course). Competition among the young men was fierce, and the victor, who took...
...spoon-fed, if you will, a career. It was fully manufactured by a studio that believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product," he says, his fingers fidgeting with anything he can find--a pencil, his scraggly beard, his beat-up old Samsung phone, the buttons on his army-style coat. "I hadn't figured out properly how to act, and all of a sudden I was being thrown into these lead roles. I didn't have the black room and the black pajamas to prance around making...
...text. Ron breathlessly justifies asking French Triwizard contestant Fleur Delacour to the dance: “She was walking. You know how I like it when they walk.” In a nighttime stroll, Beauxbatons headmistress Madame Maxine plucks something out of companion Hagrid’s beard and eats it, without skipping a beat in their conversation. And in perhaps the film’s funniest moment for Potterheads, the platonic Hermione-Krum relationship of the book is sullied with suggestions of snogging, when she dismissively refers to her admirer as a “physical being...
...predecessor. The movie has multiple narratives that are deliberately confusing. It casts an actor known for his likability, Matt Damon, as an oil trader profiting on the death of his son. It takes a star, George Clooney, known for his sex appeal and hides him behind a thick beard and a ring of flab. "It's a miracle this film got made," says Gaghan...
...Somalia, was cutting its way north at a steady 12 knots, some 55 km from the Somali coast. Then, out of the dark, came a burst of gunfire. "I saw the flash of five to 10 shots," says Mahalingam, 58, a short Sri Lankan man with a gray beard and 20 years' experience on the high seas. "Straight away I knew it must be pirates...