Word: scimitar
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With one hand lifting up the falling sky, with the other holding up a glinting scimitar, by one lightning stroke he shakes the whole earth." Thus, in language that might have made Mao Tse-tung blush, does one popular song in North Korea stress the godlike omnipotence of President Kim II Sung, 67. As shrewd and tough as he is vainglorious, Kim since 1948 has been the dictator of a belligerent, doctrinaire state that for sheer xenophobia is rivaled only by Albania inside the Communist world. In pursuit of his goal of reuniting the Korean peninsula under his rule...
First, you are astonished. Off the tube, in the rarefied, unsparing light of the large screen, this long-lashed poster boy from Welcome Back, Kotter with the hundred-watt blue eyes and the scimitar smile that promises even more than it insinuates, ought to flounder. Instead, Travolta fills up all that space and pushes at the boundaries...
...Eskimos carve sea lions, bears, fish and birds. The forms are sinuous, graceful and smoothly polished. Every detail is included from curving, scimitar tusks to flippers braced against a rock. One sculpted walrus seems almost about to snort and lumber into the water with the gigantic plosh of several tons of blubber. After stalking these creatures for centuries the hunter-artists sculpt them with a combination of humor...
...office of county legislator. "We have no illusions that we are universally loved," admits Editor Michael Grehl, 47. Grehl's New York-based overseers at the Scripps-Howard chain do not seem to mind his growling. One reason may be that the company also owns the evening Press-Scimitar (circ. 111,957) and has a Memphis monopoly. Another is that the Commercial Appeal generally finds room on the front page for such beloved standbys as a recent story of a boy and his lost dog, with a picture of the pair reunited...
Fear of the crescent and the scimitar was one of the fundamental experiences of Christian culture in Mediterranean Europe for nearly 1,000 years, until Don John of Austria broke the Turkish navy at the Battle of Lepanto. In Western eyes, it endowed Persians, Turks and Arabs with an extraordinary strangeness, an "otherness," of which echoes are heard to this day. One of the areas in which they persist, however faintly, is that of art. Given the collections of it in the U.S., not to mention the undying appetite for Oriental carpets, one could hardly say that Islamic...