Word: fu
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...cabin set up in a hotel conference room and pulled items from a cardboard box. "I can kill you with a magazine, a soda can, a compact disk, a wine bottle, and a fork," he told an audience of airline pilots. Then Messina, a stocky former cop with a Fu Manchu mustache, began thrusting a 6-in. gold object into the air. "But this is the best!" he boasted. "I bought it yesterday at John F. Kennedy Airport." In his hand was a dagger-sized Statue of Liberty with a knife-sharp torch and crown...
...Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting!” exclaims the publicity flyer for Warren I. Cohen’s The Asian American Century. The book tries to achieve more substantial analysis than the above quote, but its broad generalizations about Asian-American relations rarely contain more insight than the average pop song...
After missing last season for personal reasons, Guy returns to a team that features only three other holdovers from 2000, junior Tiffany Whitton and seniors Cherry Fu and Sarah Koppel...
...asking ourselves many times through the course of this series. But this sense of disorientation never feels out of Hernandez' control. Bouncing between the present and the past, the characters come on thick and fast: Tigre and Sammy, the tiny couple of questionable morals; Joe Hook, sporting a fu-Manchu and looking to boost his petty criminal rep; the Overboys, a criminal gang; the Mystery Girls, a crime-fighting duo; and Echo, the little girl with the mysterious eye-patch. They all swirl around this mystery man who turns out to be Michael Chang. Born in a secret compound, able...
...most recent series of more personal works is entitled “Fu,” which, in Chinese, means both “fat” and “happiness,” derived from the Chinese proverb, “A fat man is a happy man.” In this series, he creates plump, slightly abstract figures in positions of vulnerability and intimacy, which give the viewer a comfortable sense of contentment and ease. One of these sculptures was modeled after his wife and baby son, an indescribably cute and smile-inducing image. His wife...