Word: weaponeering
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With her half-thriller, half- tearjerker movie Jade Goddess of Mercy, Ann Hui has become the answer to an unlikely question: "What would you get if you combined Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon) and Jane Campion (The Piano)?" One of Hong Kong's few female filmmakers, Hui is best known for character-driven dramas such as July Rhapsody. But partway through Goddess, she gives in to her basic, box-office instinct to deliver what the people want: lots of gunplay...
...officials described to Makasan how, together with 31 other men, six of them from Som, his father attacked a police checkpoint, killed two officers, then retreated inside the crumbling, red brick Krue Se mosque to launch a defiant stand against the might of the Thai military. When the automatic-weapon fire had ceased and the tear gas had cleared nine hours after the siege began, all 32 lay dead, their bodies lying in bloodied heaps on the stone floor of the mosque. It was not the only blood spilled that day. In an unprecedented outbreak of carnage that has stunned...
...Levy’s past. When writing a review one ought to keep one’s focus on the show at hand. There is no need for the reviewer to list actors’ past performances, and such a tactic becomes inexcusable when it is used as a weapon against the actor...
...imminent strike of an asteroid 100 feet in diameter, slamming into the atmosphere with enough force to generate the effects of a nuclear weapon? Well, just maybe...
...humanity. A man of fire, a warrior of peace, Kouchner invented "the duty of international meddling." He favors intervention--peaceful if possible, military if necessary--to stop massacres and those who commit them. In the name of human rights, he approved the U.S. intervention in Iraq: "The No. 1 weapon of mass destruction is Saddam Hussein," he said. He lost loved ones in the attack against U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. He deplores the blunders of the Americans, but rejects the I-told-you-sos of the so-called peace camp...