Word: bladed
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...saber squad, whose record stands at 2-1, succumbed to the All-American blade artistry of St. John's Majtenyi, who helped anchor the Junior International USA team...
Spurred on by a stunning third round performance by the saber team, Harvard's swordsmen slashed their way to a 14-13 come-from-behind victory yesterday versus the blade brandishers from...
...perching it on the head of Mercury, give it a classical density as form. The headgear worn by his Man in a Top Hat (1927) has the formal and slightly absurd dignity of an old liner's funnel, played off against the scrolly beard and bronze blade of a nose...
Even in painting, the traditional assurance was flickering out by the 1880s. One scroll by Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958), of a cataract thundering vertically into a gorge, has a real sense of sublimity-a white blade of water dividing the black walls of rock. But in general it is clear that in the expressive Chinese phrase, the "mandate of heaven" had been withdrawn from most traditional-style Japanese painting by the turn of the century. No matter; the viewer goes to this show for its older works, and they are superb...
...ever will be, Calvino chooses his images out of an infinity of possibilities, all equally sharp, all equally life-like. And when he tells of murderers who "plunge the knife into the black veins of the neck and more clotted blood pours out the more they press the blade that slips between the tendons," it is only for the sake of allegory--vivid, but purely iconic all the same...