Word: chopped
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Lara Croft, Here I Come The karate master, a mean-looking dude with a Fu Manchu mustache, attacks me from the left. I knock him out with a swift kick to the stomach. Kazaaam! He comes back at me from the right, so I retaliate with a masterful chop to the chin. Pow! This fight sequence is playing out on my TV screen, but it's really me in the picture. Thanks to EyeToy, Sony's latest advance on the computer game, anyone can be an action hero. Launched in the U.K. last week and due across Europe this summer...
...Chicago and Los Angeles, retro restaurants are making Caesar salads, filleting Dover sole, carving roast beef and sauteing steaks right in the dining room. Patrons at New York City's Patroon are treated to a dramatic flambeed steak Diana and flaming bananas Foster. And at Terrance Brennan's Seafood & Chop House, also in New York City, breakfast is enlivened by the table-side preparation of steel-cut oatmeal or creamy scrambled eggs with lobster, black truffles, smoked salmon and osetra caviar. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...much younger guys, equally drawn to kung fu combat and nerdy intellectual musings on the nature of good and evil. On the other hand, he rather liked the first movie in what will soon be The Matrix trilogy. There was something light and dancing about it--especially in the chop-socky fights dizzily enhanced by wire work. Witness chugged off to the new screening with a high and hopeful heart...
...there is a first family of Asian food in Houston, Gigi Huang's might be it. Her father opened Hunan Restaurant 27 years ago in the Galleria area, which has since become the city's prime shopping district. His was one of the first restaurants to move beyond "American chop suey," Huang says, and became a favorite of Houston's oil barons. A white-tablecloth place dominated by a massive copper mural and carved teakwood partition, Hunan is where Vice President Dick Cheney, then CEO of Halliburton, once was host of a contract-signing ceremony with senior Chinese officials...
...faced some tough racing conditions,” co-captain Sarah Psutka said. “There was a ridiculous tailwind and a crazy chop. It added to an already tight, competitive race...