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...greatest casualty is soprano Deborah Polaski, playing Brunnhilde, especially in Die Walkure. Tall, handsome, heroic in gesture and carriage, she should make an ideal goddess. But with her bulky breastplate and helmet and huge skirt, she looks like the typical porky Wagnerian. The Rhinemaidens are decked out in biker gear, the dwarf Alberich wears one bright green sneaker. A reference to the Green movement? Who knows...
Moche pottery often depicted scenes of naked captives being sacrificed by having their throat cut. An imposing figure with an enormous crescent-shaped ornament on his conical helmet and large discs in his ears is ever present. From a goblet he drinks the blood of murdered prisoners. Scholars had speculated that these were mythical representations, but imposing regalia and ornaments placed around the 1,700-year-old corpse of the Sipan Lord and found in one of the other tombs gave the ceremonial slayings a grisly new meaning. From his attire, he was recognized as the Warrior Priest...
...common feature of the three newly discovered animals is their primitive characteristics, suggesting that they have remained essentially unchanged for aeons. The slow-running deer has simple horns that remind Arctander of a Viking helmet. The giant muntjac has large canine teeth that deerlike animals used in fights long ago, before they evolved elaborate antlers. All three animals have braincases that are relatively small in proportion to their size. Taxonomist Groves says the Vu Quang ox seems somewhat similar to the hemibos, an extinct creature that lived in India 5 million years...
...fires on the beach. There was so much happening: shells whistling in, buildings burning, aircraft overhead, Jerry letting go with 88-mm guns. We all grabbed our bicycles, and I remember the water under my chin. I had 78 lbs. of gear, not counting the bike and steel helmet. There were bodies in the water, and bodies lined up under blankets on the shore...
Throws his helmet like a four-year...