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  • Gentrification and foreign businesses are muscling in, and these newcomers don't cotton to having street toughs hanging around their fancy new amusement parks, even if they're only 10 years old and can scramble around buildings like Cow Yun-Fat in Crouching Tiger.

    My evening with Black, White and Schodt | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • I thought my superpower would be rotating my body through flight like that girl in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and landing safely on the grass.

    the lesser known superpowers 2008

  • Don't think he's ever quite lived up to the promise shown in Crouching Tiger but a first-rate director nonetheless.

    From Brokeback Mountain to Five Live Breakfast 2006

  • This film has a lot of the 'flying through the air impossibly long' scenes, which got a little old for me after I saw it in Crouching Tiger, but there are plenty of other surprises to keep the action scenes fresh.

    MOVIE REVIEW: House of Flying Daggers Kevin 2005

  • CNN.com exuded: "it's no longer Wendi the 'gold digger'--as some called her--who snared the aging boss of News Corp. Now she is being dubbed Crouching Wendi: Hidden Tiger."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • At the same time, Kan'u decides she needs to head off to see someone called Crouching Tiger so she can determine what he true path is and that leads to a lot of action and uncertainty.

    Mania News Feed Chris Beveridge 2010

  • At the same time, Kan'u decides she needs to head off to see someone called Crouching Tiger so she can determine what he true path is and that leads to a lot of action and uncertainty.

    Mania News Feed Chris Beveridge 2010

  • She should be able to stand up for herself (recall the Crouching Tiger moves of Shrek's Princess Fiona).

    Princess power 2004

  • She should be able to stand up for herself (recall the Crouching Tiger moves of Shrek's Princess Fiona).

    Chaos Theory: 2004

  • A great many years ago, long before any white man had looked upon the valley of the Upper Platte, the chief of the Pawnees, whose big villages extended for some distance along that river, was known as the Crouching Panther.

    The Great Salt Lake Trail Henry Inman 1868

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