Word: woodenness
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...never seen me a one-legged stripper," observes an evil guy played by Tarantino, "an' I been to Morocco!" Soon, but not soon enough given Tarantino the actor's tendency to slaver, the guy's genitals turn to goo and he gets a stick in the eye - the wooden stalk McGowan's been hobbling on since the amputation. Later the leg is fitted with a machine gun, so she can put her dancing moves to fatal use. Oh, and the jar of severed testicles...
...were there for a family reunion. Byun Kiljae, 53, runs his hands up and down his face as if he were trying to remove grime from his already clean skin. He's flanked by two relatives - his wife and younger brother, who has just rested a large black wooden framed photo of their late father on an empty chair. All three family members gaze at a 60-inch flat screen four feet in front of them. In a few minutes, the brothers will meet their half-sister and nephew for the first time ever - or more accurately, lay eyes...
...hundred yards away we found two rocket firing positions, one of them located in a 15-foot deep pit with reinforced concrete walls. A tunnel at the rear wall doglegged after a few feet into a small chamber lined with panels from wooden ammunition boxes where the rockets would have been stored. The second post consisted of a foot-thick reinforced concrete frame smothered with sandbags and camouflage netting and bolstered by Hesco blast protection walls. Even from a few yards up the hill, the position was all but invisible. And during the war, Hizballah gunners had tossed fire-retardant...
...demeanor too. "Jonny, by instinct, has many of the same qualities as Henry," says Hirst. "He has a short attention span. He never thinks there's anything he can't do." All of which helps when the actor has to declare war, ride a horse while carrying a giant wooden lance and speak five languages convincingly. "I had other images of Henry," says Rhys Meyers, who changed his mind after some research. "But I realized the profound aesthetic and cultural change he had on his country and how it shaped Europe's destiny...
...sculpture would become a global mascot for contemporary art. But back in Sydney, Puppy played a more practical role, too. Its presence helped usher audiences through into the MCA to see the country's best private collection of Minimalist art, from Carl Andre's bricks and Donald Judd's wooden boxes to Sol LeWitt's color-by-number wall drawings...