Word: necks
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...traditional fashion, they resorted to the national pastimes of making excuses. They may have somewhat of a point this time, but what about the other 16? The truth is that Spain plays with the flair of the promising matador that always fails to insert the sword in the neck of the bull in the first try, which is the mark of a good fighter. The Spaniards love to use the cape, but the close sight of the horns freezes them...
...adjustable seats that extend into flat beds for long-haul flights. Australia's flagship, Qantas, is launching next year its own convertible seat bed, a follow-up to its highly successful gourmet restaurant in the sky. And Virgin Atlantic Airways boasts an in-flight beauty therapist who dispenses hand, neck and head massages...
...Eventually Hollywood paged her. For her debut, as a pearl-diver in "Boy on a Dolphin," she emerged from the sea in a clinging outfit that, when I was about 12, instantly induced puberty. But Loren had the whole package: swan neck, laughing voice, a poise and perfect posture rare among tall women and, not least, the gift to inhabit any role, serious or silly, as if she'd been born there. For me, Loren was Italian cinema incarnate - until Claudia Cardinale came along, and then Stefania Sandrelli. The Italian-actress assembly line just kept producing masterpieces...
...Jiang Wen's a man's man," counters a stout, high school swimming coach craning his neck to see his virile idol ambling down a narrow Beijing alleyway. Onscreen, Jiang's toughness is best when it's paired with vulnerability. In the role that made him famous across China, as a fresh-off-the-boat newlywed in the 1993 TV series A Beijing Man in New York, Jiang played an out-of-work cellist who battles bitchy bosses, sticky-fingered factory managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong...
...Japanese poured onto the streets of Osaka on Friday night after the 2-0 victory over Tunisia. They climbed lampposts, darted in and out of traffic and leaped off car roofs. About 100 people, including salarymen, teenagers, and one buck-naked man with a Japanese flag tied around his neck like a cape, jumped into the green, murky waters of the Dotombori River. "Banzai!" the caped crusader yelled...