Word: chien
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...surrealists were not just interested in art,” she says. “It wasn’t just a style. They wanted to change the world. Even Luis Buñuel in ‘Un chien andalou’ and in his other films, you know, he writes about how what he wants is to wake up the audience because they have a tendency to let themselves be lulled into quietness and sleep. So there’s a kind of anarchist tendency in Surrealism but also just an impulse to question and to contest authority...
This is perhaps helpful to bear in mind considering the fact that the most well-known of the four films we’ve seen, “Un chien andalou,” also contains one of the most notoriously disgusting images in all of film...
...like the only good thing going for us." HSIAO BI-KHIM, Taiwan legislator, on New York Yankee Chien-Ming Wang. The Tainan-born pitching ace, who tied for the most regular-season wins in the Major Leagues and won the Yankees' first playoff game last week, is a national hero at a time when Taiwan is wracked by ongoing protests against President Chen Shui-bian...
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...INDICTED. Chao Chien-ming, 34, son-in-law to Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian; on charges of insider trading; in Taipei. Prosecutors say Chao, an orthopedist, reaped huge profits by investing in a troubled land-development firm after learning of a plan to rescue the company. If found guilty, he could face up to eight years in prison and a $925,000 fine. Chao, who maintains his innocence, is one of several associates of the President caught up in recent scandals, sparking demands for Chen's resignation and a legislative attempt to recall him in June...