Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...central conceit of the picture is a love affair, not as platonic or intellectual as you might think, that springs up between a soldier and a leopard. Yes, that is what I said, and it's a lot of ground for one picture to cover conventions of visual storytelling cannot easily accommodate such philosophical ambitions. It's hard enough to stage this cross-species romance, much less unpack what it could possibly mean...
...take off," says Wang Ren, a taxi driver in Chongqing, the first major city on the Yangtze's course. After barely an hour driving through the city, eyes begin to sting and throats get sore from the brown haze that hangs in the air. Wang says he cannot find another job; layoffs from state-owned industries have been heavy in Chongqing, and several times this year the unemployed have blocked traffic in the city center. "But," says Wang, using a time-honored phrase, "Chinese people know how to eat bitterness...
...nuclear tests set off by India and Pakistan are like violent acts by children. Most of the time, immature youngsters cannot reason, and when told no, they respond, "No one is going to tell me I can't!" or "I'll show them!" So we have little boys and juvenile adults playing with real weapons and with the very existence of life. MARY S. BAHR Pikesville...
...Clinton Administration repeats over and over to Beijing that its relations with the U.S. cannot reach "full potential" without "significant" improvement in human rights. For years, China's leaders turned a deaf ear, insisting that such issues as freedom of expression, due process, the imprisonment of dissidents, prison labor and religious tolerance were none of Washington's business. "We were talking to a wall," says a senior official. "Now we can, and we do, talk seriously about these matters...
...drag, ostensibly to save her disabled father from being conscripted for certain death in a war against invaders. But the movie's point is to show that Mulan is as valuable as any boy. Or as the film goes on to demonstrate, that she can do something her father cannot: bury a horde of enemy Huns under tons of snow. You go, girl! It's the perfect way for Disney to do Joan of Arc without having the heroine burned at the stake...