Word: warriorism
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...India, La Bayadere depicts the love story between Solor, a renowned warrior, and Nikya, a temple dancer. This performance features the petite Larissa Ponomarenko as Nikya, with Yury Yanowsky in the role of Solor. Although the couple is well-matched, they lack polish in their pas de deux, with shifty landings in their lifts and a lack of sustained movement that sometimes overshadows their individual technical brilliance. The absence of an emotional connection between the couple also seems to underscore the technical faults. Still, Ponomarenko enthuses with her fluid, well-placed positions, displaying long, beautifully shaped arabesque lines that defy...
Maxine Hong Kingston, the award-winning author of The Woman Warrior, is best known for her prose writing. But in an appearance yesterday afternoon she ventured into new territory: poetry...
Kingston has had her main successes in prose writing. Her 1976 book, The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction that year. The novel dealt with the challenge of growing up with American and Chinese culture. China Men, published in 1979, received the National Book Award...
...large part of the audience. Though the report did not cite films or studios by name, it did find that R-rated films were advertised in high school newspapers, offered to teens through free preview screenings and advertised on programs watched heavily by children, such as "Xena: Warrior Princess," "South Park" and professional wrestling. (Professional wrestling? It would be fair to say the report passed up the chance to observe that some of this "children's" programming is skeevier than anything in R-rated movies.) At the Senate hearings, McCain raised the example of Sony Pictures attempting to place...
...worked for the foundation, driving kids to activities, helping them with their computers, their ice skates and their recording projects. But his behavior at home worried his father. "I knew he was depressed," says Les. "He'd sleep for a week. And then he was like a Ninja warrior, moving silently around the house, coming out at night to eat. I'd smell the food." Franklin says he left his son notes saying he loved him, but Jamon refused antidepressant medication, assuring his father that he would never follow his brother's path...