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...Yeoh's glorious balancing act with a plate of tofu is rightly famed: she never lets it touch the ground while successfully fending off an arrogant bruiser. But just as impressive is a scene with Wo-ping himself, in the 1983 Shaolin Drunkard, where he and brother Yat-choh quaff a hundred cups of wine while woozily balancing the wine table on their knees, backs and arms. These feats are descendants of the training scenes in Wo-ping's earlier star-making vehicles with Chan and Hung, but elevated from physical display to artful kung-foolery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yuen Wo-Ping, Martial Master | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

Drinking moderately or not at all is of course your best bet for a problem-free New Year's Day. And we'll just assume you know better than to drink and drive. But if you do get plastered, be sure to quaff plenty of water, since alcohol acts like a diuretic, flushing fluids out of your system. A good rule of thumb is to drink a glass of water for every glass of wine or beer you have, and more for hard liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Party | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...vacation at the home of real estate developer Thomas McDonald (1), but because they haven't yet officially notified the town of their trip, no activities have been planned. What can the Clintons do? Some suggestions: Krebs' (2) is the best spot to blend in with the locals and quaff a brew. If Hillary is looking for a light bite, Angel's Heavenly Hamburgers (3) already has a sandwich named after her. It's a hard roll with lots of baloney. Bill can tee off at the country club (4), but buying cigars at the Havana Trading Co. (5) could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun on a Finger Lake | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...American) city. It has only 150,000 inhabitants, and life moves at a comfortable pace. Stores close at 2 p.m. for the three-hour lunch and siesta. Every night, old and young people alike trek to the barrio humedo (the bar-pub section of town) to talk, dance and quaff wine and beer (both of which are cheaper than Coca-Cola). There is no real need for cars to get anywhere; in any case, the people are friendly and will actually talk to you in the street. Leon is a city that is laid-back, sociable and always feliz--though...

Author: By Victor Chen, | Title: What It Means to Be American | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...however, Stephane dropsout of the camp of Camille-worshippers (we don'tknow what triggers his nonchalance; his reserveddemeanor suggests somehow that it was there tobegin with and that he was just going along witheveryone else) and this infuriates her and leadsher to smear garish cosmetics on her face, quaff awhole bottle of gin, and make a humiliating scene.Everyone else gets irritated with his stoicism aswell, and Maxim is put in the ludicrous positionof having to punch his rival for not sleeping withhis lover. The most significant subplot involvesthe physical decline of one of Camille's agingformer teachers, who tellingly describes...

Author: By Alexandra Jacobs, | Title: Not Quite Love at First Sight | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

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