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...biggest hits (Drunken Master, Project A, Police Story, The Armour of God) and their sequels, Chan has scooted across burning coals, eaten red-hot chili peppers, swallowed industrial alcohol. He has bounced down a hill inside a giant beach ball and leaped from a mountaintop onto a passing hot-air balloon. As weapons he has used bicycles, rickshas, chairs, plates, a hat rack, a ketchup dispenser, overhead fans and Chinese folding fans. Bad guys have depantsed him, strapped a ton of tnt to his body, doused and scalded him, set him afire, dumped him down a well, hanged him naked...
...seem, by mere human standards, senseless. In Police Story he hitches a ride on a speeding bus by running up from behind, hooking an umbrella handle onto a window ledge and hanging on while fighting off a brood of bad guys. (Gape in envy, Keanu Reeves!) In The Armour of God II: Operation Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal!) In Project A, improving on the clock-tower hanging scene from Lloyd's Safety Last, Chan falls...
...makeup to her recital of the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican Convention. Dirt Rag is a service zine for dirt bikers that lists the sport's contests and teaches readers how to make spiked ice tires for the winter. Chuck glorifies trailer- park food -- such dishes as Armour Potted Meat Food Product; and FishWrap publishes poetry like Craig Thompson's "Swarm," which includes the line: "Splattered on the windshield, a thousand gnats struck low by physics...
...West Los Angeles, attendants smooth on plant and flower oils, each with its own purpose: some stimulate fatigued muscles; others soothe them. While classical music plays softly, clients are pummeled into tranquillity with a deep-tissue sports massage, followed by the application of cooling citrus- scented lotions. Owner Bill Armour's clientele has grown 350% in the past year, to as many as 80 people a day, and next year he will be moving to bigger quarters. In the austere '90s, it seems, a little pampering can still go a long way -- so long as it happens fast enough...
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