Word: charioteer
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...film, Ben Gates (Nicholas Cage) is some sort of Indiana Jones meets Urban Outfitters anthropologist obsessed with finding an ages-old treasure hidden by Old White Men (OWM). The clue to its whereabouts has been passed down through Gates’s family after an OWM entrusted his chariot driver (a Gates) with the information. Naturally, in true Da Vinci Code tradition, the OWM decided to be atrociously cryptic and left clues after clues after clues. Gates and his side-kick Riley meet hot, smart blonde Abigail, steal the Declaration of Independence (it’s a treasure...
...DIED. JOHN G. (JACK) MCCLELLAND, 81, flamboyant Canadian publisher who shepherded the careers of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler and many others; in Toronto. Known for his publicity stunts, McClelland once donned a toga with author Sylvia Fraser and rode in a chariot to promote her novel The Emperor's Virgin. "I can usually tell if a manuscript is good," he once said, "but I can't tell...
...holder. There's enough juice under the hood--with a "high torque," liquid-cooled 24-h.p. engine--to tote his three sons in a wagon. "If you ask my wife, it's a toy, and she's right," he says. The price of his fully loaded lawn chariot: $17,000, same as a Chevy pickup...
...John Cary) gave a fair evaluation of "King of Kings": "De Mille's version of Christ was a fundamentalist one: H.B. Warner was indeed 'a sweet Jesus, meek and mild,' and this time sheer reverence held De Mille in check. There were a couple of zebras drawing Magdalene's chariot, and the earthquake that follows the crucifixion was as stunning as the Red Sea parting, although virtually thrown away.... De Mille's sincerity was on a par with his stern ruling that, during production, the actors portraying the Christ and the apostles refrain from drinking, gambling, cussing, night-clubbing...
...organizes V chariot processions across India converging on Ayodhya. Lal Krishna Advani, head of the party, leads the biggest: a five-week march during which devotees attack Muslims, killing hundreds...