Word: impromptue
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...story goes that Yorn, a 26-year-old songwriter from New Jersey, came to Los Angeles and gave an impromptu performance for a Columbia Records producer and was immediately signed. He then went on to score the gross-out comedy Me, Myself, and Irene for the Farrelly Brothers and has a song on a Dawson Creek compilation. But don’t get the wrong idea, he’s not a teenager’s popstar nor is his music suitable for the WB. Rather Yorn is a serious musician, who plays the guitars, bass, piano, drums, tambourines...
...into autopilot. She is very "present in the moment," as she might describe it. Leah offers cautions about overexertion, suggestions on how to do each pose at various levels of challenge, and great good humor. Last week she talked about a meditation seminar she had attended and called the impromptu lecture her "sermon...
After Born's sudden announcement, council members thanked the four-term councillor for her work, each making remarks before calling an impromptu recess...
Despite the hasty nature of yesterday's action, the impromptu rally received widespread attention from members of the national press gathered to cover the official announcement. At one point, a few photographers inside the conference turned away from the podium to capture the events on the lawn outside...
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...