Word: warriorism
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...PHONE SEX" and "kendo" in the same sentence belies a deep misunderstanding of classical Japanese martial culture. Kendo--literally, "sword path"--is not any of these things. Born from the civil wars that engulfed Japan for almost seven centuries, modern kendo embodies the ethical code to which the Japanese warrior so stringently adhered. These values--resolve, courage, compassion, courtesy, sincerity, honor and devotion--play an especially important role in the lives of Kendo Club members and are inherently incompatible with anything as base as teleprostitution...
...13TH WARRIOR Directed by John McTiernan Starring Antonio Banderas, Omar Sharif August...
...Enrico the old cola warrior is rewriting the rules of engagement. When you see Pepsi advertising on the air, it will still be in Coke's face, although perhaps not as relentlessly as before. Take its "Joy of Cola" campaign, in which the cherubic Hallie Eisenberg lip-synchs voice-overs from celebrities--including Marlon Brando as Don Corleone--to demand Pepsi over you-know-what. Yet it's a much broader, less edgy approach than the company's Generation Next theme, whose message excluded much of the audience. The company has also launched a new beverage, Pepsi One, to keep...
Iain McCaig, a children's book illustrator, "conceptualized" the costumes--and some of the creatures inside them. For Darth Maul, the dark-side warrior who battles Qui-Gon with a prototype double-edged light saber, Lucas asked McCaig to draw his childhood nightmare come true. The artist drew one so frightening that Lucas said, "Do your second worst." That was Bozo the Clown, who had terrified McCaig as a child. "His face had long red tassels, and he had big metal teeth...
...moment for the dry-eyed journalist to note that Jay would ordinarily be making late-night mincemeat out of himself and others present like Geena Davis, Kathy Bates, Loni Anderson and Xena Warrior Princess. Hollywood often sets itself up for ridicule. (Remember Jessica Lange testifying on the farm crisis because she played a farmer's wife?) But isn't it better to use your fame for something other than getting a table at Spago Beverly Hills? Mavis has been criticized as misinformed by a tiny but noisy pro-Taliban lobby, whose frequent spokesperson is Laili Helms, the Afghan-born daughter...