Word: lion-hearted
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...Drew’s a lion-heart,” Harris said of his teammate. “He has really stepped his game up recently and we’ve had more success—that’s great. Drew’s playing amazing...
...obvious structure reflects the chaotic state of the warring countryside; everyone and everything seems diseased and incoherent. From this madness gradually emerge the stories of a few local families and their amorous and violent intertwining histories. The main storyline, if it can be called that, concerns the killing of Lion-heart Gamuzo, and the later death of his murderer. The narrator is obsessed with the particular mazurka that Gaudencio Beira, the blind accordion player at the local brothel, performs only upon these two occasions. Gaudencio's widowed sister, Adega, contributes her recollections and opinions on matters of life, death, magic...
...shores of this history-steeped sea were said, done, written and made the best part of what the West still lives by. The story of the Mediterranean is the story of Christ and Moses and Mohammed, of Homer and Socrates, Caesar and Cleopatra, of Alexander and Saladin and Richard Lion-Heart. It is also the story of Mussolini and Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...Melrich V. Rosenberg-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Routine but interesting first English biography of the 12th Century "Queen of the Troubadours and of the Courts of Love" whose political intrigues relieved her not only of royal husbands, Louis VII and Henry II, but also of her favorite son, Richard the Lion-Heart...
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