Word: tattooings
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Facing each other in a tight circle, fingers spread and palms making a sharp crack as they clap, the men of the village of Ianapus tattoo the dark ground with their rhythmic stomping. In contrast to the chaotic rainforest that covers most of their island of Tanna, the surface of the men's dancing ground is bare earth, compacted and smooth from countless years of ritual. Today their strong voices sing here for the success of the yam harvest and the bounty of gardens to come. Young boys, clad like their fathers and uncles only in the nambas, or penis...
Jaguar fighters in tight formation buzzed over crowned heads, proud Presidents and starchy ambassadors. From a hill overlooking the sports stadium, mounted cannons boomed out a 21-gun salute. A 500-member band, complete with bagpipes and scores of drummers, rapped out a tattoo to which more than 1,000 arm-swinging soldiers marched, filling the morning air with the anthem of Oman's Royal Guard: "We do not fear death. If Qaboos calls, we obey...
...with particular verve. He eagerly took up martial arts?winning a black belt in kung fu by the time he was 17?and delighted his father by participating in Chinese lion dances at local festivals in Los Angeles. As a teenager he'd got a Chinese warrior's tattoo on his left arm. A close grade-school friend, Arturo Fematt Jr., recalls that Victor tried to persuade him to get one, too. "I used to joke with him: 'Oh, man, you know I can't get one of those. I'm Mexican...
...IMPRESSED WITH THE TATTOO AND WONDERED IF IT WAS YOURS OR JACK...
...Lewis also carries the tattoo of his own legend: the actor who goes beyond method to near madness, so encased in his films' characters that he stays in them on the set and off; the star who takes off years at a time to work as a cobbler. (Before the new film was shot, he helped build the house Jack and Rose live in. During shooting, he lived by himself in a shack on the beach.) Yet, for a reputed recluse, Day-Lewis is very chatty. He and Miller are easy with each other, looking at each other as they...