Word: boomerang
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...BLACK PANTHER #1 Written by Reginald Hudlin; Penciled by John Romita Jr. Cover by John Romita JR. The Wakandan super hero is back with Hollywood heavyweight Hudlin (HOUSE PARTY, BOOMERANG) and fan favorite Romita Jr. (WOLVERINE, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN), teaming up to deliver a book that's sure to excite true believers and the hip hop faithful. (2/2/2005...
...kind of grimacing death mask, there's Adam Geczy's video elegy for the Port Arthur massacre, and TV footage of the Moscow theater siege glimpsed through the living-room curtains of Linda Wallace's installation Entanglements, 2004. Then there's the wicked whack of Destiny Deacon's bloodied boomerang in her enlarged Polaroid, My Boomerang Did Come Back, 2003. So do the images in this powerful survey - which goes to show that photography isn't dead. It's just got nine lives...
...would be a much better friend than a certain oil-rich Arab monarchy - an obvious reference to Saudi Arabia - that encourages religious fanaticism. Gaddafi insisted that Libya no longer supports terrorist groups and is not producing nuclear or chemical weapons, as the U.S. has alleged. "It has become a boomerang," Gaddafi said. "Anyone who has weapons of mass destruction, it will backfire against them. The world does not accept such a thing. You would be crazy to ignore the trend of the world." Even Gaddafi's attire seemed chosen to strike a conciliatory note. He sported an African print shirt...
...Ninja babe. When the marksmen fire their Uzis at her, she twirls skyward, the bullets harmlessly haloing her head. She disarms two of the men with flying darts, evaporates two more with grenades, does in the fifth Goliath with her slingshot and destroys an Israeli helicopter with a metal boomerang shaped like the state of Palestine. Ninja! Gotcha! Intifadeh...
Self-esteem can also be an educational boomerang. Friends of mine who teach today's college students are constantly complaining about the high self-esteem of their students. When the kids have been told from Day One that they can do no wrong, when every grade in high school is assessed so as to make the kid feel good rather than to give an accurate measure of his work, the student can develop self-worth dangerously unrelated to the objective truth. He can then get deeply offended when he's told he is getting a C grade in college...