Word: copping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Members of Bush's own party realize a wartime president can't play legislative cop all the time, but they are now pleading for action. "I understand what he's doing staying above the fray," says Ohio Congressman Rob Portman, a key White House ally on the Hill, "but the president is going to have to engage a little more if he doesn't want us to be paralyzed." Some high ranking Republicans are less modulated than Portman, complaining that the White House is selling out fellow Republicans to protect the president's political interests. As Bush blames Congress...
...role that will set tongues unraveling like red carpets comes in Corey Yuen's Virtual Twilight, a sort of Charlie's Angels-goes-to-China co-funded by Columbia Asia. Mok plays a sophisticated plainclothes cop chasing two killers, dishes Shu Qi and Zhao Wei. It's the up-and-comer vs. the two It-girls of current Chinese cinema. Says mainland actress Zhao: "Karen Mok's cosmopolitan, smart, sexy?and always...
...mention the extravagantly tattooed road manager of the Beastie Boys' "Licensed to Ill" tour. Satisfied his posse looks sharp, Yan Ming commands: "Alright, everyone. Get ready to represent!" That's when the group's standard, which reads U.S.A. SHAOLIN TEMPLE, causes a commotion. "What an outrage!" exclaims a heavyset cop at the gates of the stadium. "There is absolutely no such thing!" He lurches toward Yan Ming as if ready to pounce, but then thinks better of it, and settles for confiscating the banner instead...
...abbot and Yan Ming embody the complex struggle under way for control of the legacy of a Chinese cultural landmark almost as celebrated as the Forbidden City or the Great Wall. It's a clash that pits monk against monk, disciple against master and, at least in one case, cop against banner. And the stakes are high. Shaolin monks' heroism on battlefields, both real and imagined, has been legendary for generations. But like so many institutions of China's imperial past, the temple was violently severed from its historical roots by the political upheavals of the 20th century...
...cop uncovered the body’s face, because I think the other people covered her with a T-shirt, and I saw a scrape on her forehead and possibly blood near the chest area, but it was hard to tell because the woman had dark clothes on,” she wrote in an e-mail. “The girl’s body looked all stiff, and she was on her back and looked like a dead crow with her hands and arms...