Word: jaw
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...Espinoza should know. At 26, his street resume makes America's most notorious gangsta rappers look pampered by comparison. In a decade of gang life, Espinoza has been jailed 14 times, shot twice, had his jaw broken with a machete, and lost an eye to a rock fired from a slingshot...
...days (so it's odd to see that the Internet Movie Database lists one performer, Zhang Peng, as "stunt double: Jackie Chan"). He still moves plausibly through the mayhem, which is what an action film requires. Maybe the climax here doesn't bear comparison with the jaw-droppingly great set pieces in Chan's Dragons Forever or Drunken Master 2 - or, for that matter, with Damon's big fight scene in The Bourne Ultimatum - but it's way more frenetic and cunningly choreographed than the digitally enhanced brawls in most modern action movies...
...past get similar treatment, including two giant question marks: Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape. All of this deepening and broadening leaves Rowling no time for Quidditch games and day-trips to Hogsmeade, but she makes up for it with spectacular escapes and dozens of new locales, from jaw-dropping to cozy...
...somewhere in Baghdad echoes in the city as I sit in my bedroom/office, and it feels like a single beat from a bass drum at a rock concert. Sometimes the bombs are nearer, though. The one near the bureau the other day was close enough to feel in my jaw. There was the sound of the blast, the shake of the windows and the instinctive clamping of my mouth, which for a moment felt as though it were twisted shut with the sharp turn of a screwdriver...
...ordinary residents of Istanbul. He now owns an apartment on Baghdad Avenue, the smartest address in the city, lined with designer shops and sushi bars. And while secularists once made fun of AKP officials for their brown, poorly tailored suits, Eksioglu adopts a cooler style with a fashionably unshaven jaw, shorts and a Led Zeppelin T shirt or, while campaigning, a sharp suit. To the consternation of local secularists, plenty of young, prosperous Turks, who also happen to be religious, are rallying to the AKP. One of the best known cafés in the area, in a former Pasha...