Word: cleverisms
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...from a clever screenplay by ex-King of the Hill writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, is a tribute to the literally hundreds of '70s Hong Kong martial arts dramas that flooded Saturday-morning U.S. TV in the wake of Bruce Lee's success with Enter the Dragon. The plot, of a laggard who undergoes rigorous training to become a great fighter, is familiar from many Jackie Chan films, including the one that made him a star, Drunken Master. Fans of Chang Cheh's Five Venoms movies will have no trouble spotting this movie's Furious Five: the Crane (David...
...shattered by his passing. "Jack - he loved his players, he cared about his players," said Peter Sterling, who won three premierships under the master at the Sydney club Parramatta. It was to Sterling that Gibson offered perhaps his most famous piece of advice, at once simple, esoteric and delightfully clever. The coach told the halfback, who'd been kicking poorly, to "kick it to the seagulls" - in other words, to a part of the field that is free of opposition players, to the point where the gulls of a coastal city feel safe settling there. Initially baffled, Sterling would later...
...acutely sensitive about. Early this month, aides pounced on Obama's suggestion in a television interview that McCain was "losing his bearings as he pursues the nomination" by making negative attacks. Within hours, adviser Mark Salter had released a blistering memo saying the comment was a "not particularly clever" knock on McCain's age. "We have all become familiar with Senator Obama's new brand of politics," Salter concluded...
...clever one Trust the Danes to come up with a seamless blend of style and savvy. This sleek number, in glazed white terra-cotta, was created by Claus Jensen and Henrik Holbaek (a.k.a. Copenhagen design duo Tools) for homewares store Eva Solo. It comes with entrance-hole fittings in four sizes, catering to tenants as small as wrens or as big as sparrows. Heat-reflective, it keeps the chicks from frying in summer. www. evasolo.com...
...Liberty City. (After all, there have been five games with the exact same tone and story framework before this one.) At 20%, I'm skipping the Ben Hur-length cut scenes, and groaning every time I have to drive all the way across town. GTA: IV has a clever system that allows taxis to instantly take you across long distances. The problem with this is, now I'm furious when I can't find a cab. Even in a driving game, who wants spend so much time on the road...