Word: dragone
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...insane when his only son was executed for deserting Saddam Hussein's army. He walked out on his wife and daughter, roaming their suburb but never returning home. Locals cared for him, leaving out food and blankets. On this Wednesday morning, making his way between the blast barriers and "dragon's teeth" road spikes at the checkpoint, Aziz told the police officers, "I want to walk." Turning left on the four-lane road cutting through the capital's Jadriyah district, he headed east in the direction of the Australian embassy. In front of him a garbage truck stopped...
Ziyi is a small woman who packs a big punch. The star of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon can also be seen in Hero, out now on DVD. She spoke with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda about a life of martial artistry...
Ancient China, gorgeous outdoor settings, a surreal story line and a mysterious character played by Ziyi Zhang. The elements add up to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but they can also describe Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers, the latest in a series of increasingly pale imitations of Ang Lee’s breakthrough martial-arts ballet. Though Crouching Tiger is in itself part of a long tradition of Hong Kong action cinema, it has inspired a new wave of iterations of the formula, none of which approach the prototype in terms of its poetically minimalist plot, beautiful...
...writing memoirs, journalists either have it or they don't. Too much recycled reportage, and the account turns leaden, leaving readers craving the terse economy of the writer's original articles; too much indulgence in personal reminiscence, and the result can be cloying and sentimental. But in Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution, Roy Rowan gets the ingredients just right, providing an account that has both factual heft and robust flavor...
...returns to the villages he went to as a young man, searching for traces of the world he had so vividly documented. Nearly six decades after his arrival, Rowan writes, "The sights, sounds and smells of China will continue to be a part of my being." With Chasing the Dragon, he has ensured that those memories will have a long and lasting legacy...