Word: reel
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...temple festivals. Soon he was aping his heroes and studying gymnastics as well as Muay Thai, an ancient Siamese boxing discipline that is a kind of combination of karate and kickboxing. He worked as a stunt man, doubling Robin Shou in Mortal Kombat, before director Prachya Pinkaew saw a reel of Jaa's best stunts and built Ong-Bak around...
...didactic and self-congratulatory, it also smartly balances a thriller's plotting with an astute eye for politics and bureaucratic idiocy. Whether you consider it a gripping, worthy scare or titillating scaremongering may depend on whether you think it is a fair warning or a grim preview reel of inevitable coming attractions. For the sake of all of us, if not of the movie, let's hope it's the former...
They’ve been coming all season, huddled in pairs in the press box or watching silently at practice. They come from Oakland, from Pittsburgh, from Indianapolis, drawn by a highlight reel and a rumor. They come because somehow or other they’ve heard that tucked away in the dusty corner of the football world that is the Ivy League, a future NFL quarterback is waiting to be discovered...
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Senior wide receiver Brian Edwards was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week following his versatile performance against Cornell. Though Edwards is usually known for his highlight-reel catches in the receiving corps, he demonstrated Saturday that he is a threat no matter where he is positioned on the field...