Word: breaths
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...immune to their predations--in part because the neighborhood is so poor, in part because all the residents, from the baker and the tailor to the kids and seniors, are skilled in martial arts. The Landlady (Yuen Qiu), spuming belligerence, can suck a cigarette to cinders in one deep breath, and has a lion's roar scream that rattles windows a continent away. Into the alley wanders Sing (Chow), a loser punk who is desperate to be an Axe man. But destiny has another, redemptive scenario in store. This accident-prone scoundrel has the makings of a natural-born kung...
...bounces easily from the women in the room to flashbacks illustrating their tales of woe, and back again to the present as others add critical commentary. The older generation, surprisingly, comes across as the most liberated. One "Auntie" argues persuasively for taking a married lover, explaining that, "...his bad breath, his hemorrhoid attacks, his flues," etc. are all for the wife while for the mistress, "he's always bleached and ironed, his teeth sparkle, his breath is like perfume," etc. Another older woman discusses the surgery that took fat from her rear and applied it to her bosom the better...
...included a generous sprinkling of lighter quandaries (do you mention a friend's bad breath to him, do you tell another player you have seen his answer card?) and imaginary situations (you are a politician . . .). But even the picayune posers are intended to provoke. Says Makow: "The small decisions are very important. People love to talk about these everyday moral dilemmas...
...criticisms have their contradictory side: on Capitol Hill, Republicans as well as Democrats denounce Regan for steering the President into an overly combative approach, but the Republicans in almost the same breath go on to accuse him of engineering a ruinous attempt at compromise on the budget. Asked his opinion of Regan, one Republican Senator rolls his eyes and mutters, "Disaster. We go down the tubes if he takes over." Republican Senator Robert Dole carefully chose his words last week on ABC's Good Morning America when asked about the job of getting a budget compromise. "We know...
...garden party hosted by the Queen was laid on at Buckingham Palace. During opening ceremonies at Westminster Hall, Her Majesty's Scots Guards bandsmen drew in their breath and tootled out Chattanooga Choo Choo. Barristers at the Old Bailey blinked uncertainly at that strange foreign phrase, "Have a nice day." And London's Daily Mail marked the occasion by proclaiming, "The loudly checked leisure suit and dime-store cigar make a welcome return to the city." Ten thousand American lawyers, and nearly as many spouses, children and friends, were on the town in London, assembled in tax-deductible (maybe) pomp...