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...This is part of the Mok mystique. Aloof means allure, and combined they make the star quality that defines an artist's relationship with the public. And she consciously pushes the puerility, especially in a recent series of Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong concerts. "I get away with murder," she revels. "I mean, those shorts must have been the shortest in Hong Kong history. And then leaping into a bathtub ... " Shorts? They were more like a belt. Her legs were painted gold from the groin down, like something out of a James Bond credit sequence. At one point she stepped...
...When a young state-trained Beijing martial artist named Jet Li arrived at the temple in 1980 to shoot a movie, Yan Ming "barely noticed him." Two years later, none of the monks could afford to be so aloof. Shaolin Temple, the film that made Jet Li, remade Shaolin. Suddenly the temple was swarming with visitors?both tourists and wannabe Jet Lis. The Chinese government, now aware of Shaolin's lucrative allure, resolved to rescue it from its exile in ideological ignominy. Crumbled buildings were resurrected. Secular martial-arts training academies sprang up around the temple's walls to cater...
There comes a terrible moment to many souls," George Eliot wrote in Daniel Deronda, "when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their lives." Tell me about it. But something more fundamental and revealing has happened since Sept. 11 as well. For many years--12 since the toppling of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet threat; 27 since Watergate, depending on how one is counting--the country has been living outside history. By this I mean living not only with little...
...students like Maria, who is currently devoting much of her energy to pursuing an aloof host at John Harvard’s, this very creative spirit begins as early as the first approach...
...first week, everyone was sort of numb, and that was the ‘death of irony’ phase. But the use of the word irony is sort of incorrect. People were referring to aloof smugness, detachment, and it was hard to be detached from everything that was going on,” Colton says. “The week the attacks happened, we didn’t yet know what was funny. Nothing was really funny.” So the two humorists posted a letter to their readers saying that comedy was postponed, but it would return...