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karate-chopping

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  • No longer was he simply a mischievous scamp running circles around the archbishop of Canterbury and barking like a dog; William was now karate-chopping his mother, kicking the servants, and throwing cringe-making tantrums in public.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Next thing you know, we're getting nightmare-inducing shots of the kid practically karate-chopping his way out of her belly until —boom!

    Watercooler: Oh Baby! Fringe's Name Game 2011

  • No longer was he simply a mischievous scamp running circles around the archbishop of Canterbury and barking like a dog; William was now karate-chopping his mother, kicking the servants, and throwing cringe-making tantrums in public.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • The marathon of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese and Southeast Asian popular cinema opens July 1 at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, with its ever-arresting array of Yakuza potboilers and martial- arts extravaganzas, perverse comedies and karate-chopping cyborg romps, ghost stories and historical epics—and guest appearances by legendary figures like Tsui Hark, the architect of Hong Kong's new wave of action spectacles in the 1980s and '90s and this year's major honoree.

    Martial Art-House Steve Dollar 2011

  • FROM SPLASH PAGE: The Internet was set ablaze recently when "Turtles" co-creator Kevin Eastman declared that a live-action film featuring the four karate-chopping amphibians was in the works.

    ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Co-Creator Confirms Live-Action/CGI Hybrid Film » MTV Movies Blog 2008

  • With that, she was off again, a six-foot-tall blond-haired, blue-eyed Teutonic goddess, karate-chopping the air with one hand and then the other, expressing herself with efficient, forceful, clipped precision.

    Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

  • With that, she was off again, a six-foot-tall blond-haired, blue-eyed Teutonic goddess, karate-chopping the air with one hand and then the other, expressing herself with efficient, forceful, clipped precision.

    Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

  • With that, she was off again, a six-foot-tall blond-haired, blue-eyed Teutonic goddess, karate-chopping the air with one hand and then the other, expressing herself with efficient, forceful, clipped precision.

    Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

  • With that, she was off again, a six-foot-tall blond-haired, blue-eyed Teutonic goddess, karate-chopping the air with one hand and then the other, expressing herself with efficient, forceful, clipped precision.

    Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

  • When I finally dropped the G-bomb, my mother responded with the same level of open-mindedness that once inspired her to take a "mind-expansion class" in the 1970s and to play a karate-chopping housewife in a local production of Sondheim's "Company."

    Do We Need To Go There Again? 2009

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