Word: spun
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Conventional wisdom has it that video games based on movies are supposed to be lousy, but The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Xbox; $50) might just be better than the movies (Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick) it was spun off from. In Butcher Bay, the bald, bass-voiced badass Riddick has just been locked up in a high-security sci-fi slammer, and he's hell-bent on shivving and shooting his way out of it. Game play is a tasty mix of hand-to-hand fighting and gunplay, relieved by some smartly scripted role playing...
...reasonably prosperous and reasonably well-educated young man whose only motive for murder was his desire to impress a movie actress whom he had never met, Jodie Foster. It was Reagan's luck that five of the six bullets missed him, but one apparently ricocheted off his car, spun below his armpit and punctured a lung. Reagan did not even know he was wounded until he began tasting his own blood as the armored limousine sped him away from the scene. But he was brave, stoic, uncomplaining. Lying in bed, he even began offering a stream of jokes. To doctors...
...Hendricks had simply flipped on a switch, the result was masterful. The Texas native scattered six harmless hits—four singles and two bunts—while allowing just one batter as far as second base. Working quickly, he walked none and spun his signature, knee-buckling curve along with a precise fastball to keep his opponents from getting a chance to settle...
...undergraduate was attacked in Cambridge Common on Oct. 23 at approximately 8:30 p.m. when a male grabbed her wrist and waist, spun her around, grabbed her breast and then attempted to remove her coat...
...favorite D.J. spun music from Animal House over enormous subwoofers and speakers as sheet-clad guests showed...