Word: joint
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...waited six years for him to accept the part, and I wouldn't have made the movie without him." Kitano, for his part, found working with Sai "educational" but traumatic. When the star dislocated his shoulder during a violent scene, Sai told him to hurry up and pop the joint back into place himself. "The man is a devil," jokes Kitano. "He should be arrested." Maybe. But not before he receives his due as the brutal, compassionate conscience of Japanese film...
...structure can be applied to a creative process. According to Kiely, the integrity of artistic degree programs was also questioned during the development of the visual and environmental studies concentration. In terms of scholastic intensity and liberal arts approach, one can look again to the music department, in which joint concentration gives students an opportunity to research a broad range of topics. Recent joint theses have included such diverse fields as mathematics, social anthropology, romance languages and psychology (theses in the latter two won Hoopes Prizes...
...soldiers who return from Iraq missing a leg from the thigh down are getting back on their feet a lot faster these days, thanks to the Rheo Knee. The new prosthetic joint, developed in Iceland, is designed to learn the nuances of an individual's movements and adjust itself. An innovative control module--made up of sensors, a computer chip and software--reacts instantaneously to changes in the wearer's gait, so there's less strain on the hips and back...
Breaux: We need more interaction between the two parties. I remember [former Louisiana Senator] Russell Long talking about the number of joint lunches [Democrats and Republicans] used to have, where they used to sit down and hear each other out. We don't do that anymore. A lot of the new Senators are from the House. And I would hope that they wouldn't bring the House mentality to the Senate, because it's really a poisonous atmosphere over there. [Representatives] really don't like each other in a lot of cases...
...profane. The introduction to poulet rôti gently proclaims, "If you can't properly roast a damn chicken then you're one helpless, hopeless, sorry-ass bivalve in an apron." Pearl onions are "little f____ers." And butter should be formed into a log "like you would roll a joint" for the faux-filet au beurre rouge. Betty Crocker...