Word: jarring
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...Yuen Clan. In The Miracle Fighters, a delirious carnival of a film that plays like a ber-Cirque du Soleil, Yat-choh is the young hero, Cheung-yan a cranky lady wizard, Sunny the nasty Sorcerer Bat and Brandy a clown-face warrior condemned to live in a jar. In Mismatched Couples (1985), Wo-ping plays what has to be called the Jerry Lewis role. No abasement is too extreme: he barks on all fours, swallows nails, gets his head stuck in a fish bowl and squashed in cake. His fingers are cut, his noggin dented. The character ends...
...Despite the best efforts of NASA's engineers, there's a chance that the minor adjustments the station makes to keep a stable orbit, or the pounding astronauts give their treadmill, or even someone slamming a hatch too hard, could jar the complex enough to disrupt some experiments that depend on weightlessness...
...mind, but he did not think anyone would kill him for it. Says Phyllis: "The scary thing about this is anything is possible. It could have been somebody who was just pissed off about a job. It could have been somebody who had a hand in the cookie jar and was going...
...tell. He never bought me a Christmas present, never asked me how classes were going or showed much interest in my daily life. But he did teach me how to dig up potatoes, fix toilet plumbing, catch Japanese beetles at twilight in a jam jar. How to talk to a dying man. That's slowly, waiting until he has caught his breath, not asking too many questions, getting him water or melted sherbet, sitting quietly, being there. Switching on the golf...
...complement of Cabinet members and appointees by the end of next week. ("Don't hold me to it, though," he said hastily.) And he's starting to look comfortable talking like a president - taking questions sure doesn't scare him like it used to, and the buzzwords don't jar the ears like they used to. The mantle may be growing...