Word: warriors
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...film, directed by Star Wars creator George Lucas, follows the young, passionate Jedi warrior Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) as he betrays his mentor Obi-wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), on his way to becoming Darth Vader...
Reuven Adler accepted the daunting challenge in the 2001 election of trying to soften Ariel Sharon's image. "He's a warrior. He's quite fat, and when he walks, he stomps along," Adler, an advertising executive, recalls thinking. "We had to give him some feminine appeal." Sharon, Adler calculated, was too far to the right on the political spectrum to gain broad support. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 representing the extreme left wing and 5 the far right, Adler figured, Sharon was a 4.7. The winner of every previous election had been a little right...
...show, as well as over 1,500 performers in the women's elegant southern buckskin dance and the men's more strenuous war dance. More than 20,000 Indians and tourists attend to watch elders conduct rites?in the understated yet powerful gourd dance, men pay tribute to the warrior spirit by shaking rattles and lifting their heels to a hypnotic drumbeat. "They're not just performing for the crowd, but conducting ancient rituals," says Connie Hart Yellowman, director of the Red Earth Festival. "It's a time to socialize for Native Americans. Some people haven't seen each other...
...trip around Bakshis and Zang's home store in Burlington shows that TSC is clearly a sanctuary for the affluent lawn warrior. Horse-racing helmets are displayed near hummingbird feeders, and outdoor paint, in John Deere Green for antique tractor collections, fills the shelves. ATVs share the center aisle with shiny lawn mowers. Udder cream comes in pretty clover tins (women have discovered its charms for chapped lips), and lawn trinkets are the hot item for spring. In the pet center, an aluminum bin full of chirping baby chickens is adjacent to model plastic horses for the kids...
...Victor did so with particular verve. He eagerly took up martial arts?winning a black belt in kung fu by the time he was 17?and delighted his father by participating in Chinese lion dances at local festivals in Los Angeles. As a teenager he'd got a Chinese warrior's tattoo on his left arm. A close grade-school friend, Arturo Fematt Jr., recalls that Victor tried to persuade him to get one, too. "I used to joke with him: 'Oh, man, you know I can't get one of those. I'm Mexican...