Word: bone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...master once told me that breaking a board is like breaking a bone," Shim said. "I could break someone's ribcage with the kick of a foot...it's reassuring...
...throw consistently in the upper 90s--and even fewer can maintain that velocity past age 30. Yet Morris--who never threw faster than 88 m.p.h. during a minor league stint that ended 12 years ago--had only grown stronger. Maybe it was because he'd had a painful bone spur removed from his shoulder. Maybe it was the years of weight training and pitching at batting practice. All the Devil Rays knew was that they were having a pathetic season and were desperate for left-handed pitching...
...summers before last summer, I spent the month of July at Camp Miniwanca in Michigan. Back then, I didn't have an angsty bone in my body. I'd sail on Stony Lake, pine away for Becca Cannon and nod along when Miniwanca staff tried to teach the camp's philosophy. The mumbo-jumbo about balancing the mental, physical, social and religious aspects of myself, living a "four fold life," only got between me and lanyard bracelet making. But recently, I've reconsidered. More than ever, I think I could use some mumbo and a pinch of jumbo...
...taking a joke to its breaking point ("www.sh.com," "zip it," etc.). But some gags flopped miserably--Fat Bastard, most notably, was not only tired, but just flat-out gross. There's the feeling--so prevalent among sequels--that the Austin Powers concept has been milked to the bone. Parodies have a short shelf-life--they only last until new material arrives. And, of course, the "spy" genre isn't very trendy anymore. If the makers decide to spawn more sequels, I have no doubt that Austin Powers will stray further and further from the original concept and more towards...
...satisfying, but it's pedestrian. It is not the worst thing to content yourself with an image that almost speaks, but this beauty can't tell you anything that you don't already know. American Beauty isn't merely skin deep, but it never quite cuts to the bone...