Word: weaponeering
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...something pre-adolescent lingers in the acting of many ex-child stars, which gets in the way of the characters even as it focuses our eyes on the stars. I think it's because kids who stepped before the camera at an early age learned that the most important weapon in their arsenal was their gamine appeal. From the start they were tutored in the art of beguilement, the seductive talent of getting looked at. (These kids wouldn't be on screen if someone hadn't noticed them and said, "You oughta be in pictures.") They have been watched...
...Sidewalk chalk is the first weapon of student voice across the country; on many college campuses, it’s difficult to find a virgin square of asphalt. Colorful riots of amateur images, murals laid down on their side, document the vibrancy of student life. At one corner, they may advertise an upcoming event, at another, a protest, and at still another, a whimsically encoded maxim...
...subjects for an earlier film (“River Dogs”) in which they journeyed to the Grand Canyon, premiered at Sundance in 2003. Galison is a professor in the History of Science department at Harvard and focuses in modern physics. His documentary “The Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb Dilemma” premiered on the History Channel in 2000. Galison’s research on the H-bomb, which was built clandestinely, sparked his general interest in governmental secrecy. “I began to wonder, when people censor documents and things they?...
...like about the last Clinton presidency and what might be wrong with the next one. Lobbyist and former Texas Lieut. Governor Ben Barnes, long a prolific donor to the Clintons and other Democrats, says the former President is - as everyone knew he would be - his wife's most powerful weapon. The problem is, says Barnes, who now supports Obama, "that gun kicks as bad as it shoots...
...face of it, the Oxnard shooting is another tragic case of a gun-toting kid with inappropriate access to a deadly weapon. But this incident has implications beyond gun control laws (California’s are some of the nation’s strongest). The killer, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney, murdered King not because he had access to a gun, but because King had declared his “abnormal” sexuality both explicitly and, allegedly, by dressing and acting in what was perceived to be an inappropriately feminine manner...