Word: warrior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working-class Mailman and great white hopes, couldn't drag us away from Jordan's charm. For a spasm of a second last month, it seemed O.K. if Larry Bird's Pacers won the conference championship--there was mythological resonance to the protagonist's being felled by a warrior ghost--but by Game 7, we were right back in our proper seats behind Jordan. We wanted one more hit of Jordan's hyperintensity, and we were willing to sacrifice our belief system...
MULAN (June 19). A girl becomes a woman warrior in this chow-mein cartoon: Chinese savor meets American-do. Now that industry analysts no longer expect every Disney animated feature to do $300 million domestic, they can appreciate the suave storytelling and cross-generational lure of a nice little epic like this. And accountants at the Mouse House can expect black ink, not Mulan rouge...
Students learn how to channel natural "fight or flight" reactions into swift defensive tactics meant to subdue the bad guy, summoning in a heartbeat what Levine calls a winning warrior spirit. They escape from choke holds and bear hugs, wrestle away weapons, fight on the ground and fend off multiple attackers. Anything goes, including groin kicks, elbow jabs, head butts, hair pulling, biting and eye gouging. "There are no rules," explains Levine, an L.A. County prosecutor and the highest-ranking American instructor in Krav Maga. "If it's illegal in boxing, we're doing...
...local nursing home. Mitch, who had been troubled since Gretchen's divorce from his father, Scott Johnson, in 1994, had seemed happier; he had brought home A's in music, choir and phys ed in January. He had even made three different middle-school teams, becoming a Westside Warrior in football, basketball and baseball...
MARRIED. LUCY LAWLESS, 30, New Zealand-born, leather bustier-wearing star of Xena: Warrior Princess; and ROB TAPERT, 43, the show's executive producer; in Santa Monica, Calif...