Word: swordsmiths
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...King. Finally, next May, comes Troy. You don't need to be a lovestruck teenage girl to notice that Bloom is one of the hottest talents in the business. In Pirates he plays Will Turner, who, with his olive skin and wispy goatee, must be the best-looking swordsmith in the West Indies. Fueled by love, Turner sets out with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to rescue damsel-in-corseted-distress Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from dastardly pirate Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). When you watch Bloom parrying onscreen, you see shades of pirate-movie icon Errol Flynn - a natural...
...Nosedive." A Kyoto banker's son, Nagare was so brash from the beginning that his father packed him off to a Zen temple to meditate. While there, Nagare was entranced by an aging master swordsmith, who ritualistically tempered keen blades for samurai swords, as good for beholding as for beheading. For four years, Nagare took classes at night in order to devote days as an apprentice to the old swordsmith, learning lessons about the taut contours and precision polish that eventually cropped up in his sculpture...
...things Angus learned out of school he never would have found in books. They were the hundreds of tales his father knew, that had been told by the MacMillans for generations. Some of the stories took hours to tell (like the one about Warrior Fionn's wonderful swordsmith, who had four hands and could turn out two swords at a time). Other stories took only a few minutes (like the simpleton who outwitted the lawyer). Angus learned them all by heart, and never changed a word...
...each other in the streets, on tramcars, in trains, on ferry boats. Husbands and wives flung themselves into an embrace. Shining-faced little boys and girls were treated by beaming shopkeepers to delicious bean-sugar cakes. Meanwhile-the Sword! A precious blade, short and strong, forged by the Imperial Swordsmith, Sadakatsu Gassan, it was presented to the newborn Crown Prince, not by his father direct-for the Emperor of Japan acts always through intermediaries-but by proud old Admiral Kantaro Suzuki as the Emperor's Messenger. During the sword ceremony the Imperial obstetricians could hardly wait. Directly afterward they...
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