Word: swording
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...those good intentions can be tedious, of course. Roar moves along at a distractingly languorous pace and makes you wish for the zinginess of Hercules and Xena, shows meant to be nothing more than absurd fun. Like those series, Roar has plenty of high kicks and sword fights, but its scenes feel like bad attempts at re-creating Braveheart rather than very entertaining ancient-world episodes of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It is unlikely too that Hercules, played by the Fabio-coiffed Kevin Sorbo as a guy who appears to have lost his way back from spring break, would...
...student produced a copy of the 400-year-old Latin Laws of Cambridge, which entitled students to cakes and ale during exams. The student was brought Pepsi and burgers, which were accepted as modern equivalents, but he was later fined five pounds for having neglected to wear his sword...
...consistent, Second Amendment revisionists would have to argue that, in this case, the student was not entitled to cakes and ale, nor should he have worn a sword because the rationales for those laws no longer applied. In other words, along with the swordwearing statute is an understood rationale: Students must wear swords because swords are essential accouterments for a gentleman and are necessary for self-defense. Since the rationales no longer hold, the argument would go, the law need not be enforced. But that's just not the way it works. No matter their justifications, laws remain laws...
...goddesses, her long hair caressed by a brisk wind even when she's indoors. Typically, though, she was cast as the superwoman who not only fights like a man but also is mistaken for one. "I don't treat myself like a woman," she tells a suitor in Butterfly & Sword. "Don't you treat me like one either...
...Seattle Assistant Police Chief Harvey Ferguson, yesterday, referring to Tony Allison, a former mental patient who disrupted Seattle traffic for nearly half a day by wielding a samurai-style sword. It took police 11 hours to knock him down with fire hoses and subdue him on a busy downtown street Thursday night...