Word: chinatown
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...eight Emmy Awards for that show as well as such specials as Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Stone's notion was to create a quest theme. The story opens as Big Bird (played, as he is on Sesame Street, by Caroll Spinney), roller-skates through Manhattan's Chinatown and admires a scroll depicting the legendary phoenix of China. He is smitten and resolves to go to China as a sort of avian Henry Kissinger, to tell the phoenix that "American birds think Chinese birds are just swell." Finding the phoenix is the problem. Big Bird and his shaggy...
...private club, and the patrons were placing bets on a Chinese game called "paykyo," using metal chips. But on this particular night in Seattle's Chinatown, all of the players were tragic losers. At least two gunmen, for reasons that were not immediately clear, entered the turquoise-painted Wah Mee (Beautiful China) club from its alley entrance some time before midnight, bound the hands and feet of all but one of the 14 occupants, then aimed handguns at the heads of all. When the methodical shooting was over, twelve Asians lay dead; a 13th died later in a hospital...
...have been the motive for the violence and had no evidence that a gang vendetta was involved. The only known survivor was too seriously wounded to tell his story and was heavily guarded in his hospital room. Said a neighborhood woman, as police and reporters sought details: "This is Chinatown. Nobody knows anything...
...publication next week, a selection of 350 Sheraton reviews in book form has sold out its first printing of 25,000 copies. Awkwardly titled Mimi Sheraton's The New York Times Guide to New York Restaurants, the $9.95 paperback is as diverse as the city, ranging from minuscule Chinatown dim-sum joints to the midtown cathedrals of continental cuisine...
Impressed by Murphy's chutzpah, the loner cop begins to open up, to the cultured convict, and they work as partners in some great car and subway chases through the streets of San Francisco. The photography, music, plot, characters all come together in Chinatown for the incredibly thrilling end. The Indian, the psychopath, Murphy and Nolte stalk each other by the eerie glow of the neon lights through the fog. The final explosive shots are in slow motion, and put 48 Hours on a par with Dirty Harry, White Lightning and The French Connection. With fast action, violence, urban realism...