Word: fearlessness
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...While the new Afghan recruits are often fearless fighters - nearly three decades of continuous war has instilled a stoic acceptance of pain and privation that would hobble most modern militaries - few are prepared for the discipline required for service in a regular army. One U.S. drill sergeant wryly recognizes that time is an elastic concept for most of his trainees, and a tribal leader from Helmand estimates that any given day finds as many as half of the ANA soldiers in his province stoned on hashish...
...come his way, keeps ragging on his pal Ian (Leslie Phillips), who is less sickly, but more prone to aches, pains and complaints, and mostly undertakes the education - actually we'd better make that the civilization - of the eponymous Venus (Jodie Whittaker, a young actress making an utterly fearless debut). She's Ian's grandniece, up from the provinces and supposed to be tending the old guy - cooking, cleaning, giving him an arm to lean on. She's hopeless at all these tasks, and a potty-mouthed layabout besides. Nevertheless , Maurice takes a mentoring shine to her, perhaps seeing...
...stepson, the Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) is trying to poison the Empress, and the whole royal house seems less later Tang dynasty than Aaron Spelling's Dynasty. This gorgeous surprise from China's Zhang Yimou (Hero) looks like a martial-arts movie but plays like delirious melodrama. The fearless, peerless turns from Chow and Gong Li demonstrate how the fiercest swordplay can come from two charismatic stars staring daggers at each other...
...ever undergo” says Michael B. Chow ’07 of Ramaswamy’s rapper alter-ego. Though “Da Vek” raps libertarian prose with the utmost of ease, don’t expect to see him in section. The rapper, who fearlessly showed off his skills at the Busta Rhymes concert in spring 2004, only emerges when Ramaswamy is outfitted entirely in black, complete with a black Kangol hat. “They’re two completely different people,” says Chow. When “Da Vek?...
...Hannibal Rising an OK book from a superior writer. You'll want to get it, not just to read, and decide for yourself, but to place next to the other Lecters. It has family resemblances: a keen intelligence, a crime-heat reporter's attention to morbid detail and a fearless interest in abnormal psychology. But if the four books in the series were the Marx Brothers, this one would be Zeppo - a supporting actor outplayed by the charismatic stars...