Word: warriorism
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...that everyone in the cast deserves Academy Awards. Nearly all the bad guys seem too mechanical. As a result, the sense of warrior-like competition between Willis and the bad guys is lost. In the first movie, there is more of a sense that Willis is playing a deadly game of chess against formidable, intelligent and very real foes...
...Angeles, are drawn to the violence; even the fear, when it distills into adrenaline, carries illicit pleasure. What sets Los Angeles apart from Afghanistan, Burma and Northern Ireland is that gang warfare, with its spoils of drug money, gratifies greed. Money in South Central is the gang warrior's jihad -- a fitting retribution for a materialistic society...
...after five years as an Egyptologist, including a year and a half in Cairo studying hieroglyphics, and a thesis on the Old Kingdom, he can spin innumerable tales of the history and lore of the Middle East. Antara, a bastard son and warrior from the Jahaliya, the time before Islam. Akhnaten, who ruled before Tut, and founded the temple of the sun god. But though Egyptology was what originally took him to Egypt, "when I got there I was more interested in modern Egypt...
...Cyrillic alphabet, is again being taught. The image of the Mongol hero is back in vogue: a nearly completed joint-venture hotel is named after Genghis Khan, and his visage adorns the label of a local vodka that is bottled / for export. An elaborate memorial to the warrior will soon be constructed in the capital. Meanwhile, the last of the Stalin statues in Ulan Bator has been dismantled...
Fujimori is descended on his mother's side from a noble warrior, but his family, like most of Peru's 80,000 Japanese immigrants, first lived in a dirt- floored adobe hovel after arriving from southern Japan in 1934. The second of five children, Alberto worked hard, went to college and eventually became rector of Lima's La Molina National University of Agriculture...