Word: bravura
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...exactly five hours after his bravura Super Bowl show, Bono is exercising the rock star's fundamental right to be ridiculous. At a celebratory post-game dinner in the French Quarter with his band mates, the U2 management team and actress Ashley Judd (an old friend), he throws back some red wine, tells a few stories about Frank Sinatra, leaves a rambling cell-phone message for Judd's husband gently informing him that his wife has been kidnapped by a rock band, and then sneaks off to the bathroom for a cigarette. (Bono thinks the rest of U2 doesn...
...exactly five hours after his bravura Super Bowl show, Bono is exercising the rock star's fundamental right to be ridiculous. At a celebratory post-game dinner in the French Quarter with his band mates, the U2 management team and actress Ashley Judd (an old friend), he throws back some red wine, tells a few stories about Frank Sinatra, leaves a rambling cell-phone message for Judd's husband gently informing him that his wife has been kidnapped by a rock band, and then sneaks off to the bathroom for a cigarette. (Bono thinks the rest of U2 doesn...
...Picture this: the best 40-second kung fu blitz from the Matrix, paired with a series of arabesques and topped with a dash of bravura Beijing opera. Huang tosses himself 2 m into the air and, with his body perpendicular to the floor, spins 360 degrees, landing lightly on his feet. A ballet leap and acrobatic tumble later and he's perfectly aligned in a diagonal with the three other dancers...
...bravura of aerials, Miller may prove that when it comes to the Olympics, speed still thrills. Certainly Europe hasn't lost its "hup, hup, hup" for slalom. Two weeks ago in Schladming, Austria, for instance, Miller won a World Cup slalom in front of a roaring crowd of 50,000. "Everyone's talking about him," says U.S. technical coach Jesse Hunt. "They know him by his first name," as if he were a soccer star...
Foxx is best known as a comedian--on TV's In Living Color and The Jamie Foxx Show, and he's appeared in half a dozen mostly forgettable big-screen comedies. But he started getting serious in 1999 with a bravura performance as an ego-driven quarterback in Oliver Stone's football drama, Any Given Sunday. "Chris Tucker beat me to the slot of big comedy," he says. "Chris Rock has his own slot. Will's got his slot. So do Martin Lawrence and all those guys. I got lucky in getting the chance to do something dramatic...