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...goodness, Jonas made quite the save on that one," RPI Coach Dan Fridgen said. "Down an out, threw down the cross, and it caught his arm. Talk about snake-bitten. What else...
...gritty win over the snake-bitten Engineers was exactly what the doctor ordered, giving Harvard it's first season sweep over R.P.I. since the 1995-96 season, and senior goaltender Oli Jonas's second shutout of the season...
...filmgoer of a certain age, your image of electroshock was shaped by such movies as The Snake Pit or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In the latter, a small army of orderlies and nurses restrain Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) as he is connected to the electrodes. The treatment is agonizing because McMurphy isn't given anesthesia, which has been routine for years...
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...
...Afraid of the Praying Mantis The biggest "Survivor" laugh so far came in the promotions, where CBS treated us to the obligatory shots of snakes, kangaroos, crocodiles, and... a praying mantis? Not exactly the scariest thing you'll face as a survivor. Then again, "Survivor"'s on-site physician, Adrian Cohen, told People magazine that participants were also up against five species of deadly snakes, "all of them... incredibly mean." Which is an overstatement, says Lilley. The snakes, particularly the brown snake and the taipan, can be vicious (and three crew members were bitten during production) but mostly the problems...