Word: america
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...might sound like the ultimate East-goes-West success story. Chen Chong, the daughter of two Shanghai doctors, becomes a movie star at 15, is dubbed "the young Elizabeth Taylor of China" and, at 19, wins the country's top acting prize. She goes to America where, as Joan Chen, she stars in The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks and Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth. Chen shuttles between East and West, playing fiercely intelligent seducers in the Hong Kong Temptation of a Monk and Red Rose, White Rose while making onscreen love with Anne Heche in Hollywood's Wild Side...
...something of a partisan--"Robert Frost has been my favorite poet ever since the ninth grade"--but his readings of the poems and of the man are shrewd. Frost had what might be called a limited greatness. Parini's dust jacket calls him "the only truly 'national poet' America has yet produced." No. That would still be Whitman...
Henry Luce has to be in China by now, so sonic has been his grave-spin at the fawning, serious-faced, totally preposterous Monica Lewinsky issue. You give truth to the notion that everything is for sale in America. BOB INGRAM Narberth...
Jack E. White's review of my new book Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class [BOOKS, March 15] was the most anti-intellectual and bizarre personal attack on my character and physical appearance that I have ever read in a news publication. My book is based on discussions with more than 300 accomplished blacks from all fields and 100 important black institutions and organizations; therefore I find it odd that your review focused instead on my physical features. Your piece reflects the level of discomfort that many whites and some blacks feel when they discover that...
...story "Tae-Bo Or Not Tae-bo," about the trendy new exercise routine Tae-Bo [FITNESS, March 15], stated that Petra Robinson is "a vice president at the American Fitness Association." Robinson is vice president of the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (A.F.A.A.), a different organization...