Word: sword
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...Number of those that involve untimely death (murder in Gosford Park, above, and In the Bedroom, sword fights in Lord of the Rings and disease in Moulin Rouge...
...last and decisive impetus to the great divide between Hindus and Muslims, which in turn led to the bitter harvest of partition in 1947, was provided by the Muslim mobs of Calcutta who ravaged the city in 1946. In 1984, Sikhs were identified, torched and killed by sword and bullet after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. In 1992 the destruction of a mosque on a disputed spot in the holy city of Ayodhya, where the Himalayas begin to meet the plains, was followed by wanton nationwide riots in which Muslims were surrounded, terrorized and massacred; rape was thrown...
...Indians paid an indescribable price in blood. For these mass lynchings have an almost celebratory air. Mobs roam the street as if on some gruesome holiday during which they have been released from all the codes of humanity, chatting as they roam, roaring as they kill. Fire and sword is not a metaphor in my India...
Another recent, impressive project of his is entitled “Big Sword.” A government funded project, he created four colossal clay sculptures memorializing the sacking of Nanking by the Japanese in World War II. Rectangular obelisk-like structures that are bronze castings of his original ceramic sculptures, these works are the largest scale sculptures ever produced in China. Remarkably organic and vibrant, human figures emerge from this giant mass of clay, but they are all connected, on top of or next to one another, all part of the same edifice. An entire park in Beijing...
...four weeks now, I’ve come at you every-other-week after every-other-week with my incisive social commentary. And if my experience over the last month has taught me anything, it has taught me that the pen truly is mightier than the sword. I am not going to say that my eloquent prose was the only reason that the Berlin Wall came down, but I will say that without me you would all be dead...