Word: warriorism
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...certainly looks like war, as you turn a corner into heavy fire. Several combatants are blasting away in an alcove just beyond your reach. You move closer, annihilating one warrior and zeroing in on a second. Then you sense a presence over your right shoulder. Before you can turn to defend yourself, however, the scene on the screen lurches and topples. You've fallen, and you aren't getting up, as the line across the top of the screen makes clear: "Reviser is pierced by Grrrl's nail gun." Again...
...further illustrate her points, Kingston read passages from her books, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Chinaman and Tripmaster Monkey...
...been an agile phone warrior, and there are few signs that the breakup has put the core business into better shape to meet cutthroat competition. Anyone turning on a radio or TV, answering the phone or picking up the mail these days has to fend off endless pleas from AT&T and competitors--MCI and Sprint are the biggest--to switch his or her long-distance calls from one carrier to another. Or pleas not to switch. Or to switch back...
Pepsico CEO Roger Enrico is seeing an awful lot of red in his first few months as captain of the blue team. Throughout July the renowned cola warrior got to witness the marketing frenzy associated with the Games in Atlanta, a.k.a. the Coke Olympics. Coke is riding Olympic glory to an 8% increase in sales so far this year, twice as fast as its great rival...
...Beckwith had already photographed the Maasai when she and Fisher met in 1979. Fisher, a jewelry collector and designer, had mastered photography in order to document the body adornment of African tribespeople. Recalls Beckwith: "It only took us a week to decide to collaborate." They started with a Maasai warrior-graduation ceremony in Kenya and Wodaabe courtship rituals in Niger. Then, beginning in 1985, they spent five years photographing the everyday life of tribal peoples in the Horn of Africa, particularly Ethiopia, a project that resulted in an award-winning book called African Ark (Abrams...