Word: namelessness
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...plot is a series of tales told by the warrior Nameless (Jet Li) to the Qin King (Chen Daoming). Any or none of the stories may be true; this is Rashomon with a Mandarin accent. But the moral, or rather the ethic, is as clear as it is bleak: man must make war to secure the peace...
...Nameless has three main adversaries: Sky (Donnie Yen), a master martial artist he defeats in the film's first, superb battle scene; Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a calligrapher who is as adroit with a brush as with a saber; and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), Broken Sword's soul mate. Flying Snow has a side skirmish of her own with Moon (Zhang Ziyi), Broken Sword's smitten apprentice. Loyalties are tested, alliances made and sundered. Death is the price for betrayal?of the King or the heart...
...something of a visionary as well. After four decades of bite-sized, digestible songs of appropriate lengths and recognizable lyrics, there may be something of a crisis brewing in certain music circles. What is there left to do? One response is Sigur Ros’ experiments with wordlessness and nameless orchestrally constructed opuses. Claypool’s approach is possibly even more mischeivous...
...hardly a big man on campus. I’m not big on the clubbing scene, final or otherwise, and I didn’t meet a new person every night freshman year. I’m shy. I’m not drowning in a sea of nameless hangers-on and casual acquaintances...
While many of them remain nameless, it turns out that one of the unsung Baby-Sitters comes from surprisingly (frighteningly?) close to home. He just celebrated his 25th reunion for the Harvard class of 1977. He was a biochemistry concentrator and a former director of the Krokodiloes. His name is Peter Lerangis?...