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Yojimbo [Coolidge Corner]: Toshiro Mifune, playing John Belushi, rides into town with a samurai sword for hire. He meets clint Eastwood, who plays an American actor who acts in spaghetti westerns based on Japanese classics. Mifune says "This film is better than anything you'll ever do" and Eastwood replies "Yeah, but more people will see my movies and they'll think my plots were original. You'll wind up announcing winners on the Emmy Awards." Mifune sighs in agreement and shows Eastwood how to spin a six-shooter. Eastwood show Mifune how to open a beer can with...
...know what astounds me most about the world?" Napoleon asked in his later days. "It is the impotence of force to establish anything . . . In the end, the sword is always conquered by the mind...
This time, in the suburbs of Cairo, the mind lost to the sword, to grenades and automatic rifles and the fleet precision of fanaticism making one of its abrupt, savagely familiar hits upon the world's hope for something better...
Indeed, the variety of sports offered here is tremendous. From tackle football to road runs to fencing, there are activities for the frustrated high school soccer star as well as the French Lit enthusiast who wants to know what the sword work in The Three Musketeers is all about...
Most B & B proprietors, even those who are full-time innkeepers, are not trying to make big money. Says Suzanne Redd of Charleston's Sword Gate Inn: "We're in it for the pleasure. We love to entertain." Marian Binkley, owner of San Francisco's Hermitage House, agrees: "It isn't a business, it's a hobby. It's like having ten sets of house guests every night. The B & B owner has got to want to mother the world...