Word: dragone
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...injury time in its second game. Following a 2-1 loss to eventual silver medalist Nigeria, the squad was done. At the opposite extreme rests Argentina. After routing rival Brazil 3-0 in the semifinal, the team won gold by outlasting the Nigerians. If Egypt went crazy, Argentina went dragon crazy. Dragon crazy! That’s so crazy.I don’t need this level of commitment in my own country. It’s part of the joy in going abroad to see these new sights and enjoy these new celebrations.All I want is a little more. Come...
...Soon he started making good on my bet. Within a few years, Rourke had won starring roles in a bunch of fascinating weirdies: Francis Coppola's Rumble Fish (Mickey was Motorcycle Boy), The Pope of Greenwich Village, Michael Cimino's Year of the Dragon, the S-M erotic drama Nine 1/2 Weeks (with Kim Basinger, who also made a comeback at Venice in The Burning Plain), the satanic thriller Angel Heart (De Niro was the Devil), as a gangster in Elephant Man makeup in Johnny Handsome and a lowlife genius in a film of Charles Bukowski's Barfly directed...
...more dangerous threat: greening, a condition caused by the Asian Citrus psyllid, a sap-sucking insect invader from overseas whose depredations began three years ago. Unlike canker, greening spreads from tree to tree without the aid of heavy winds or rain. Greening, also called huanglongbing or yellow dragon disease, creates misshapen and bitter fruit and eventually renders the infected trees useless for commercial cultivation. As soon as the insects appeared, greening was detected in all 32 citrus-producing counties in Florida, as well as in Louisiana and Texas...
People say that John Keats' ghost haunts his house below Rome's Spanish Steps. And, according to legend, a dragon lurks beneath the columns of Castor and Pollux's temple in the Forum. These are just a few of the tidbits to be found within the new Rome edition of The Ruyi, a series of guidebooks (www.theruyi.com) that turn visits to Italian cities into intriguing treasure hunts...
...best Chinese stars, directors and stunt coordinators for occasional work; and, after a decade or so of hyperactivity, the movement wore itself out, allowing American action films to appropriate a little of its supernal energy. That crazy-wonderful movie spirit may be dead now, but in The Dragon Emperor you'll find some limber ghosts from Hong Kong's Golden...