Word: crescentic
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Both the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Cross Federation, which represents more than two dozen Red Cross and Red Crescent societies around the world, want to adopt a new emblem with no recognizable religious or political connotations. Suggestions for a replacement include a pair of red chevrons, a red diamond or another symbol that resembles a pair of red brackets...
...roots of what is turning out to be an acrimonious dispute go back to the Red Cross Federation's exclusion of Israel's Red Shield of David society in 1949. The Geneva Convention mandates the red cross (originally an inversion of the Swiss flag), crescent and lion as the only acceptable signs of international neutrality, and thus bars the Israeli organization. While the American Red Cross has pushed forcefully for Israeli inclusion for 50 years, it does not want to drop the cross altogether...
...provide showcases for the guitarist's highly evolved style. The lyrics reveal Landreth's deep preoccupation with his Louisiana heritage, and most of the songs revolve around a kind of Cajun mythology, with an occasionally felicitous turn of phrase like "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"; musically, Landreth filters the zydeco and Crescent City traditions through a more modern roots-rock lens. But the blues is never too far away, notably on "Broken Hearted Road," and if the neo-Southern Gothic lyric stylings sometimes overreach, they rarely drop the ball altogether, and all it takes is a quick blast like the sizzling instrumental...
...introductions and a handshake, he smiles and gets to the point. "Shall we go?" he asks in slightly accented English. The interview, it seems, will have to wait. He's wearing a metallic gray muscle shirt, navy running shorts, white socks and a pair of emerald Nikes. The thin crescent of a new moon is hanging over the medieval city of Marrakech. Morocco's 36-year-old monarch is ready...
...best example I can think of in "O" has a clown drifting on a raft in an ocean; a shark fin begins to swim around him and he panics; he suddenly calms down, picks up a fishing pole and hooks the fin, pulling it up to reveal a crescent moon which he gleefully hangs in the sky). It's also a decidedly French experience--it's incomparable to anything that I've ever seen in American theater (the only comparison I can make is to 1995's The Fifth Element--and that, of course, was made by a French director...