Word: sword
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...flashy showpiece of the group is Osiris. Entirely computer generated, it's the least demanding short, seven fast minutes of racing hoversubs, squiggly Sentinel drones and skyscraper diving. If that's not enough to engage the vital 13?15-year-old male demographic, Osiris also throws in a sword duel that leaves the heroine wearing little more than a thong. The short is visually enthralling and its digital heroes manage to outemote Keanu Reeves. Still, Osiris is more video-game interstitial than anim?...
...felt really bad for the guy,” Rose said. “He ended up having to just borrow someone else’s sword, and I think it really shook him up. But it was probably a mismatch to begin with...
...worst enemy" in front of the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden sword to lop off the limbs of an effigy of a U.S. soldier. "North Koreans' loyalty to Kim Jong Il is stronger than that of Iraqis for Saddam," said Kim Sik, a former university professor in North Korea who is now living in the South...
...clear before fighting began that while it hoped to spare the lives of ordinary soldiers in the Iraqi army, since they would be needed to stabilize the country after the war, U.S. forces would seek to kill Republican Guard units that did not surrender. But the U.S. wielded its sword so deftly that relatively little carnage remained. The battlefields south of Baghdad are pocked with relatively few of the craters that would have been produced by the carpet bombing of masses of soldiers. Instead one finds blown-out tanks and other vehicles, usually standing alone...
...Double-Edged Sword...