Word: bak
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...years of biting their tongues in public over censorship, filmmakers are now finding their voice - and not just art-house mavericks like Apichatpong. The Thai Film Directors' Association is lobbying lawmakers not to pass the act in its current form. Prachya Pinkaew, director of international martial-arts hits Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong, now sports a NO CUT, NO BAN anticensorship T shirt...
...told his colleagues at a Faculty meeting that day that Knowles would return “within a few days.” “As Christopher Robin put on his door for Winnie-the-Pooh to read,” Knowles wrote to professors, ‘Bak Sun!’” But only five days later, Knowles’ condition worsened, forcing Bok to ask David R. Pilbeam—then the senior adviser to the Dean of the College—to step in as FAS dean. “It?...
...working from home for a week or so, trusting (and believing!) that I shall be fully re-harnessed thereafter,” he wrote in the letter. “As Christopher Robin put on his door for Winnie-the-Pooh to read: ‘Bak Sun?...
...visitor: "I will be a scientist." Down the hall, an older student poring over a Cambridge English text says he likes football star David Beckham. The students are well-behaved and bright, and their English is as good as anything you would find in Seoul or Tokyo. Vice Principal Bak Ryong Gil says the youngsters are learning to use the Internet. Really, we ask, can they access it? No, he explains, they can only look at select material downloaded at the country's main computer-research center. "There is no Internet," says Bak, "but we have a plan." He says...
...picked up heavyweight Holly-wood fans, from Brett Ratner, director of Chan's Rush Hour smashes, to Quentin Tarantino, who screened Ong-Bak at his home with his pal the RZA of the iconic rap group Wu-Tang Clan. "Tony is my homey, yo," says the RZA. "He's young, energetic--a new breed of martial artist born in the hip-hop generation...