Word: face-off
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Tears were plentiful on the Geisha set. For Hatsumomo's final, incendiary face-off with Sayuri, Gong Li stayed on the set all day, crying, never getting out of character. Marshall recalls, with awe in his voice, that "hour after hour, as people worked around her, lighting and moving cable, she stood there weeping, because she couldn't leave that feeling. I've never seen anything like that in my life." After the actress filmed her last scene, she couldn't let go. "When Rob Marshall announced that I had wrapped my role and was leaving," she says...
...started out strong in goal, and didn’t allow a score for 13 minutes before letting three shots slip through in the waning minutes of the frame. The second of those goals came off the stick of Crimson mate Cahow, who gathered the puck off a face-off, slipped in and juked Boe for a score at 13:45 into the period. The ECAC All-Stars were able to tally one more goal in the final period, but it was the U.S. National Team that closed out the scoring with the final goal of the match...
...defense attorney Dick DeGuerin strode into an Austin courthouse last week to defend Congressman Tom DeLay, he quoted Yogi Berra, asserting that this would be "d?j? vu all over again." Given the trouncing DeGuerin had handed Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle 12 years ago in their last big face-off, few observers doubted this would be a battle royale. But no one anticipated it would be d?j? vu so quickly...
Charging downfield off the face-off, junior forward Julie Lane worked the ball in close and earned a penalty corner...
...evidence tying them to terrorist acts. In fact, evidence gathered by British officials in the thwarted El Al bombing has pointed toward Syrian involvement. Damascus, however, maintains a mutual friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, which means that an attack on Syria could result in a superpower face-off. Though Administration officials later insisted that Reagan's remark had been misinterpreted , their statements left the impression that the U.S. had one standard for Libyan terrorism and another for atrocities perpetrated by stronger and less isolated countries...