Word: spearing
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...Saul about marrying the latter’s daughter, it’s “like something from the ‘Godfather’ movies or ‘The Sopranos.’” When one of David’s opponents finds a spear driven through his stomach, he’s “like a Kurosawa samurai.” When David wages war from Caanan’s outskirts, he’s “like a warlord, or a guerilla...
Auel can be unintentionally hilarious, especially when her prehistoric characters talk in anthropological jargon ("the Arterians make a spear point with bifacial retouch"). There is a campy charm to this, as if the author had, beyond our wildest imaginings, found a way to combine The Flintstones, Dynasty and the story of Mme. Curie...
...urge to cuddle does not arise naturally here. "When I first saw these babies," says Virginia Spear, a social worker in the intensive-care nursery, "all I could think of is that they looked like an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry--all the fetuses in the jars. Some of them aren't much more than fetuses. But then I saw a mother whose baby weighed 1 1b. 5 oz. She was a typical teenager, liked to have a good time, dance, listen to rock music. What she did with that baby was a revelation. I like...
...hostages in the Middle East, had an irresistible Gaullist urge to preserve their military independence. "No blank checks," a French official said of Paris' refusal to go along with the U.S. action. Concurred a French army colonel: "We will not be the Americans' valet d'armes--their orderly or spear carrier." The Italians have an enduringly bad con-science about Mussolini's colonial war against Libya and, to be sure, are concerned about 4,000 Italians living there today. West German leaders appear to have chosen to indulge the strong, barely dormant pacifist streak in the country...
...impressive. "Wait for Jackie," someone says. Jackie Joyner, silver medalist at the Los Angeles Olympics last summer, has won the first five heptathlon events here at the U.S. Olympic Committee's National Sports Festival meet. She appears at the beginning of the javelin run-in, holds her spear head-high, level with the ground, and flows into the unmistakable prancing, straight-backed run that must have been the same when soldiers threw those weapons in the Trojan War. The javelin thuds down at 144 ft. 11 in. There is a roar. Casual fans are delighted, but the knowledgeable are disappointed...