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...HEAVYWEIGHT Thai kickboxing twins Maki and Aki didn't see the guitar coming. Billy Chaka, ace investigative reporter for Youth in Asia teen magazine and expert in kung fu, kenpo, Tae-kwondo, jeet kune do, capoeira and "many of the esoteric brands between," outfought the duo with a cherry-red Gibson and plunged back into Tokyo's pulsating streets. His mission: to figure out what a little bird had to do with the deaths of a night porter in Hokkaido and the country's most beloved rock star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tokyo Toontown | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

Shortly after, Lee landed his first U.S. show-biz role: Kato in The Green Hornet, a 1966-67 TV superhero drama from the creators of Batman. With this minor celebrity, he attracted students like Steve McQueen, James Coburn and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to a martial art he called Jeet Kune Do, "the way of the intercepting fist." Living in L.A., he became the vanguard on all things '70s. He was a physical-fitness freak: running, lifting weights and experimenting with isometrics and electrical impulses meant to stimulate his muscles while he slept. He took vitamins, ginseng, royal jelly, steroids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gladiator BRUCE LEE | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Tell anecdotes featuring people with comic names. Thus: "Tim Iddly was a conformist... He agreed with his boss, Ty Kune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fear Not the Platitude | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

Professor Kune Meyer, Exchange Professor from the University of Berlin, resigned yesterday after bitterly condemning President Lowell and the University for their un-neutral stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 25 Years Ago Today | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

Professor Hermann A. Korff Kune Francke Professor of German Art and Culture will give six public lectures in German at the Germanic Museum on Tuesday at 4.30 o'clock beginning March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Korff to Give Lectures in German Beginning March 12 | 3/6/1935 | See Source »

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