Word: daggered
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...Dapper is the size of some of its 110 carved wooden nkisi figures. While most nkisi figures - ritual religious statues - are about 20-cm tall, this exhibit displays some reaching nearly 1.2 m as they stand, left hand on hip, right arm brandishing a dagger. In the elaborate vocabulary of Congolese sculpture, this is a gesture of strength, meant to ward off evil. Painted eyes covered with transparent glass signify clairvoyance; eyes nearly closed denote serenity and a transition from one world to another. This artistic lexicon is used throughout the Congo region, encompassing several dozen tribes in the modern...
...Which brings us to Italy, another soccer powerhouse sent home by host Korea. Italy usually is the opposite of Spain - their game is boring, but they always know how to place the dagger in the opponent's heart. The azzuri's sense of entitlement wore off this time at the coming out party of an up-and-coming Korean side. Korea the introvert, the middle brother who struggles to find its place in the Asian family, took the Cup by storm as a country and as a team, in a perfectly planned and executed effort to let the world know...
...tragedy that lurks beneath Spidey’s happy-go-luckiness. Going through my brother’s Marvel trading cards, the heroes I kept coming back to were the beautiful ones whose stories were laced with some kind of sadness, heroes like Rogue, Phoenix, Wolverine and Cloak and Dagger. The best kind of superhero struggles with a crippling weakness, a desire he/she can never fulfill, or, like Spider-Man, a tragic past that motivates his heroic deeds. Spider-Man fights criminals because they killed his dear Uncle Ben. So swoon, people, swoon. To the relief of comics-fans everywhere...
...told an audience of airline pilots. Then Messina, a stocky former cop with a Fu Manchu mustache, began thrusting a 6-in. gold object into the air. "But this is the best!" he boasted. "I bought it yesterday at John F. Kennedy Airport." In his hand was a dagger-sized Statue of Liberty with a knife-sharp torch and crown...
...theater world knows, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is cursed. Legend has it that on the opening night back in 1606, the boy playing Lady Macbeth died of fever before the show could open. In 1672 for a production in Amsterdam, the actor playing Macbeth apparently used a dagger that accidentally didn’t retract and killed the actor portraying Duncan during a performance...