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...practices for which Shaolin is now famous were developed as a direct response to the way the monks had been portrayed in fiction and drama." If life at the Shaolin Temple has long imitated art, Yan Ming may be writing its newest chapter. Jet Li's next movie, rumor has it, is called Manhattan Monk...
...have a new, more adventurous sensibility, says Flemming. Some members attribute the improvement to the lead singer, Scheuer, who joined last fall. After holding fruitless auditions for a new lead singer in early fall last year, the band caught wind of a rumor that somewhere in the freshman class there was a funky freshman who could match the craziness of our dress and tightness of our playing with a kick-ass stage presence, recounts Appel. He gave us a direction to go in, and has been a great force in rehearsal. Singing was not really a priority. We were just...
...sprawling mess that swallows the Las Vegas convention center along with several surrounding hotels (Microsoft, for example, took over twenty floors of the Marriot down the road). Attendance was down this year - from 200,000 to around 125,000. Perhaps it was fear of flying. Perhaps it was the rumor that terrorists were planning to release smallpox at the convention. Perhaps it was the metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs that patrolled every entrance and made getting inside just as much of a crowded nightmare as actually being inside. Or perhaps it was the growing realization that the whole event...
Like clockwork, as the first firefighter entered the building, the scriptwriters (a.k.a rumor mill) arrived on the scene to fill in the plot details. Fire “experts” emerged from the crowd, each with a different theory as to how the fire had started. Some said that the boiler blew up in a ball of flames—after all, we have had trouble recently with our hot water. Others were sure that the grill had caught on fire, which they could tell very obviously by the smoke’s aroma—something akin...
...rumor that raced through Washington last week of an atom bomb someplace in the city being readied for the next terrorist atrocity had a familiar ring...