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...women (played by Japan's Rie Miyazawa and Taiwan's Joey Wong) in a Suzhou noble house. The film is so saturated in the sad glamour of their love that style becomes substance. The women don't make their sexual affinity explicit; but one can always feel the breath of the other's erotic interest, and the air goes humid with promise. Seeing Peony Pavilion is like getting high on the opium smoke a beautiful woman exhales as she gazes into your eyes and says, "Maybe...
...opium, her singing," and the viewer is as well. Rong later has a heterosexual tryst (another hot turn by Daniel Wu), and Jade feels fatally betrayed. But Rong has never consummated her feeling for Jade; she just keeps dangerously near, within kissing distance. Jade can always feel the breath of Rong's erotic interest, and the air goes humid with promise. Yonfan's film is just as tantalizing, as delicately decadent, as Rong's hovering love. Seeing it is like getting high?on the opium smoke a beautiful woman exhales as she gazes into your eyes and says, "Maybe...
...eloquently expressed many of my own feelings at watching my mother slowly slip away. As I walk to work past the flowering trees, enjoying the fresh smell of spring that she loved so much, I miss her. But I had been missing her for some years now. Take a breath of spring, Mr. Rosenblatt. I am, and I think our mothers are too. FELICIA ZETLER Pittsburgh...
...holding his breath where Washington is concerned...
...nervous Snowdon stood in front of the assembled sisters in Mankato, many of whom he'd got to know as friends, and made his pitch. "We sat in our chairs and held our breath," recalls Sister Rita Schwalbe, who by then had joined Snowdon's research team. "Then one of the sisters piped up, 'He can have my brain, what good is it going to do me when I'm six feet under?' And that broke...