Word: martial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I was growing up, popular culture didn't give me much a choice of role models. Which could you look up to: (a) Bruce Lee, a violent martial artist with a bad accent, (b) Mr. Miyagi, an exotic martial artist with a bad accent, or (c) Long Duck Dong from the movie Sixteen Candles, a socially inept math/science nerd with a bad accent...
...demonstration, Yan also showed off the latest moves in Tai Chi, a Chinese martial arts form, and peppered his dialogue with Chinese character descriptions...
...comedy directed by Ang Lee, who moved to the U.S. from Taiwan. Asian-style kickboxing movies have found an eager audience in the U.S. Recently one of Hong Kong's best filmmakers, John Woo, relocated to Los Angeles to direct the action movie Hard Target (which stars Belgian-born martial-arts hero Jean-Claude Van Damme...
...gear fired their guns to dispel angry crowds. The U.N. has yet to organize an efficient communications network or stockpile enough rations. At one point food and water for the peacekeepers dropped well below a week's supply; someone had miscounted the number of troops. "That's a court-martial offense in my country," says a U.N. military adviser...
...Diego last weekend, and it was a somewhat more low-key gathering than the bacchanalian riot that occurred the last time the organization met, two years ago in Las Vegas. Back then, the attendees sexually assaulted dozens of women, and their behavior resulted in 40 disciplinary actions, 11 court-martial investigations, the resignation of a Navy Secretary, the near firing of the Navy's top admiral, and a universal condemnation of the pilots, the most swaggering lads in the land. This time around, the occasion had all the libidinous excess of a talk on estate planning at a nursing home...