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...Films, and, at 25, retired from acting. The marriage ended four years later, and Chan quickly offered her a part as his kick-butt co-star in Super Cop. In some later roles she got to play ultra-glam goddesses, her long hair caressed by a brisk wind even when she's indoors. Typically, though, she was cast as the superwoman who not only fights like a man but also is mistaken for one. "I don't treat myself like a woman," she tells a suitor in Butterfly & Sword. "Don't you treat me like one either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: EVERYBODY SAY YEOH! | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Iscream; you scream; we all scream for ice cream! Or, maybe only I scream, since it's a brisk April day. Time of year is no deterrent for me. I eat ice cream just about every day of the year. Ice cream study breaks always manage to snag me. Yes, I confess. I am a Harvard first-year, and I am addicted to ice cream and its affiliated products...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: The Eighth Wonder of the World | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

Toscanini's, an ice cream shop that opened last week at 1310 Mass. Ave.--the location recently vacated by Ultimate Bagel--was doing brisk business during yesterday's warm weather...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Local Ice Cream Chain Opens At New Mass. Ave. Location | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...Benetton would embrace the colors of this plate. But after Arizona issued it in 1992, it was redesigned for clarity. The peaks paled to lilac, and the lettering was darkened. Plate sales remain brisk, raising in all more than $2 million for environmental education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

That's a lot to pack into a brisk hour and a half, and Mamet himself cannot quite pull it off. Oleanna plays a little too fast and loose with its characters to be quite as compelling as one would like. The production of Oleanna mounted last weekend at the Loeb Ex, however, further compromised an already flawed script. In adapting a play about the complexities of meaning, director Leah Altman '99 and her cast took a fatally broad, superficial approach to their tricky material...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: An Overly Simplistic 'He Said, She Said' | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

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