But the strongmen and sword swallowers who perform at the Coney Island Circus Sideshow will be out of work until May 24, when owner Dick Zigun is able to open the first floor of the landmark building that houses it as well as a bar, gift shop and dressing room destroyed by Sandy.

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It turns out that this kind of mix-'em-up creativity is a double-edged sword for a man of Powell's clout in the industry.

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But she snaps out of her dreaminess to become an impulsive young woman bent on revenge, hacking at her hair with her sword in the hope that she will be taken more seriously by the men whose world she has chosen to share.

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It's so useful that five out of our top twenty tools--the chisel, the lathe, the saw, the scythe and the sword--are themselves forms of the knife, specialized for different circumstances.

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