Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes seems too much in a hurry to pause for that valuable indulgence. Her dense, rapid-fire synopsis of the siege and fall of Troy is, inexplicably, almost as wooden as the horse. Her enthusiastic expedition into papal territory (where she solemnly scolds, but obviously admires, the ferocious warrior-Pope Julius II) stops dead for impenetrable paragraphs dealing with Renaissance politics. The sharply polemical tone in the Viet Nam section undermines the intended message...
...after eleven years of retirement from pro basketball is putting on a full-court press for stardom in Conan: King of Thieves, due out this summer. In the sequel to 1982's barbaric hit, the 7-ft. 1-in. former N.B.A. champion dunks some nasty villains as the warrior Bombaata, who is on a perilous adventure with the shorter (6 ft. 2 in.) but broader Conan, portrayed again with brutish authority by Celebrity Iron Pumper Arnold Schwarzenegger, 36. Also along for the fun and grunts in the film, now shooting in Mexico, is the Amazonian Zula, played by Model...
...tactless for him to do so at a funeral. Instead, the Reagan administration itself should take this opportunity to try to improve relations: a trip to Andropov's bier would be the first step toward forming the basis of mutual respect which has been entirely missing from our cold-warrior relations...
Videomakers loot every resource for visual vocabulary. A random selection of a dozen clips could easily show influences as diverse as René Magritte and Orson Welles, The Road Warrior and The Three Stooges. Videos are often just as frenetic on the screen as on the sound track. Directors scrape and scramble to pack in the imagery, like so many soda jerks trying to push a quart of French vanilla into a pint container. "The problem is compression," says Julian Temple, who has made some 60 videos, including a current dazzler of the Rolling Stones' Undercover of the Night...
...Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Byzantines, Arabs. During the 7th and 8th centuries A.D., Damascus flourished as the capital of the Umayyad Empire, which stretched from Spain to India. In the 12th century the Crusaders' brief reign came to a violent end at the hands of the warrior Saladin, who remains a Syrian folk hero to this day. After Saladin's death, his domain fell...