Word: chung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...network has given a woman a real shot at the top anchor job since Barbara Walters failed to perform ratings magic for a sluggish ABC reporting staff in the mid-1970s. Waiting in the wings are Diane Sawyer at ABC and Connie Chung at CBS. But the big three networks have been unwilling to alter the competitive lineup of solo anchors that has stood unchanged for almost seven years, although many observers think viewers are yearning for fresh faces...
...Tokyo to Taipei, from Beijing to Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur. Japan's energy comes from a disciplined adherence to the hierarchical loyalties demanded by the ancient philosophy. In Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew reigns as a benevolent but stern patriarch. South Korea prospers because of -- not in spite of -- Park Chung Hee, the dictator who laid the foundations for his country's phenomenal economic expansion. Though Elegant does not quite make the argument, the Confucian ethic, with its emphasis on obedience, can justify the Tiananmen crackdown. Deng Xiaoping is said to have modeled China's reforms on Park's repressive...
...main cast is admirably supported by an energetic chorus of professional bridesmaids and disgruntled ghosts. Particular praise goes to David Chung playing the ghost of the bishop. He has a wonderful ability to maintain his mannequin stillness in the show...
...Chung's success was emblematic of the larger triumph. At every step in the Bastille's history, it would have been much easier to do nothing rather than something. It would have been easier to leave the Opera in the Garnier, easier to leave the solid but dull Barenboim in place, easier to maintain the Paris Opera's reputation as the art form's great underachiever...
...Europe's august cultural institutions to a young man for whom music is still an art and not just a job is irrelevant. The fact is, without offense to Barenboim (music director-designate of the Chicago Symphony), it was the best thing that could have happened. The Berge-Chung regime sends a signal that there can no longer be operatic business as usual in Paris. That big-league opera means something more than canary fancying; that it need not simply be a permanent source of employment for the same handful of singers, directors and designers, played to the same handful...