Word: daggering
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...small Tennessee Bible church, a mission facilitator assured his listeners that "if you're a native speaker and can fog up a mirror, you can teach" English abroad. He projected a cartoon on a screen to show the advantages of being unofficial: a man wearing a turban and dagger halts a standard-issue, briefcase-toting missionary at a striped barrier while another Westerner carrying a toolbox strolls blithely through, toward a mosque in the middle distance...
...feeds your performance." But in the theatre there are no flaming, computer-generated Balrog monsters to fight. McKellen laughs. "Special effects only mean you often act in front of a blue screen and imagine the scenery. It's exactly the same as Macbeth, where you say 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' There is no dagger. And I never saw the Balrog, I was shouting at a yellow tennis ball!" He jokingly experiments with the line Shakespeare might write today, "Is this a Balrog I see before me?" HE IS PROUD of his film record, and strongly...
...flat in the east coast town of Berea. In 1964, Kodesh was detained without trial, then exiled to Britain where he continued to work for Mandela's African National Congress. Kodesh returned to South Africa in 1991 as the apartheid system began to crumble. Believing that the cloak-and-dagger life he led would be unfair to any wife and family, Kodesh never married...
...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...