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...same, many Koreans remain enthralled by their wiseguys. The myth of the noble mafioso may be badly frayed in most countries but Korea's gangsters?or "fists," as they are called?are still folk heroes. (The term comes from a traditional preference for fist fights?not until the 1970s did Korean gangsters move up to sashimi knives, and guns are still rare.) Fists are the subject of best-selling books, and most of last year's hit movies were gangster flicks. In real life, most mobsters make their living from extortion, prostitution and gambling. But films about the underworld...
...never saw a prop he couldn't use to enhance a fight. His heroes and villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas, trash can lids and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. Another Yuen rule: if it slithers, hops or scoots, hire it! Snakes in 1980's The Buddhist Fist; a man-size toad in the phantasmagorical Miracle Fighters of 1982; rats in Shaolin Drunkard. In the 1977 Broken Oath (the last movie Yuen action-choreographed before he turned director with the Jackie Chan Snake in Eagle's Claw), lovely, severe Angela Mao plays with scorpions; she always...
...Some Libyan officials intimated that compensation for Lockerbie might be paid after al-Megrahi's appeal. But that was before Gaddafi said his piece on the topic. Slamming his fist against the wall of his crumbling former home, plastered with posters of mutilated children, he called for compensation for the 1986 bombings and the crippling economic sanctions that followed. Gaddafi's words, which were much more strident than the initial Libyan response to the verdict, naturally found support in Tripoli editorials the next day. The Green March daily called the verdict "an open attempt to blackmail the Libyan people...
...Jerri and Colby and Amber caught a bunch of fish, hand over fist, and Keith - a chef again, much to his bemusement - filleted and fried up the suckers while everybody went to school on him. But the grub, apparently, was delightful...
...head coach Brian Billick also issued statements defending the Pro Bowl linebacker. Of course, Sharpe, widely known as the league's biggest trash-talker, has diarrhea of the mouth and says anything that pops into his mind without discretion. Billick was caught by a CBS camera pumping his fist and yelling, "Yeah! [Expletive] you!" after a Ravens touchdown at Tennessee in the AFC Championship Game. The coach did not appear to be addressing anyone in particular with his exclamation. Later in the game, however, Billick taunted the Nashville crowd, facing the fans with his arms raised in victory. At least...