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Like Jackie, Yuen never saw a prop he couldn't use to enhance a fight. His heroes and villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas, trash can lids and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. Another Yuen rule: if it slithers, hops or scoots, hire it! Snakes in 1980's The Buddhist Fist; a man-size toad in the phantasmagorical Miracle Fighters of 1982; rats in Shaolin Drunkard. In the 1977 Broken Oath (the last movie Yuen action-choreographed before he turned director with the Jackie Chan Snake in Eagle's Claw), lovely, severe Angela Mao plays with scorpions...
...Someone will have to pay for this mess, and not just the cows. The European Commission says its budget can cover only a 10% decline in beef sales, which would leave governments to prop up national markets on their own. That means a higher bill for grumpy, tofu-eating taxpayers. Which is why those European politicians who ignored warnings about the threat of bse and then lied about it are frenetically trying to shift blame for the crisis. French Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany said last month that Britain should be "morally condemned" for spreading the disease on the Continent...
Gambling is a desperate attempt to demean my co-workers through false bravado about things that I don't even care about. All this time, I haven't been betting in order to win money; the money is simply a prop to hold over the loser's head while I take a picture of myself smiling. So now, instead, I will resort to more economical ways of humiliating people. Like printing that Josh has recurring dreams about riding on a motorcycle with Shaquille O'Neal. I'm feeling much better already...
...Senate GOP aide. And so the wealthy - who would get the lion's share of tax relief under Bush's plan - were kept out of sight last week. Instead, Bush flew in middle-class "tax families," with little girls in velvet dresses and boys in penny loafers. Best prop for the cameras: a single-mom waitress with two kids making $32,000 a year. (She would get $1,500 back from the government, according to Bush.) Asked by reporters where the rich tax families were, the President said he represented them...
...turned off his heaters and watched the temperature in his 360-sq.-ft. greenhouse drop as low as 40[degrees], which has left his roses in as sorry shape as his shrinking bottom line. Then late last week Neve, like so many Californians, got another nasty shock: to help prop up its two largest, ailing utilities, the state gave the go-ahead to raise electricity prices 7% to 15% for a period of 90 days. Neve estimates that only a quarter of his ailing crop will make the cut for Valentine...