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...pitchwoman for Lux Soap, Coca-Cola (Japan) and Red Earth cosmetics (O.K., that contract just lapsed). In a six-year career, the 25-year-old Taiwanese seductress has made no less than 45 movies. One of her first, Sex and Zen II, is a soft-porn classic, the Emmanuel of Asia. Two of her films just debuted amid the incomparable glare of Cannes: Millennium Mambo and Beijing Rocks. Hong Kong singer-cine idol Leslie Cheung calls Shu Qi a "sex goddess." (And Cheung knows something about being adored by the crowd.) Chinese director Yonfan is even more gushing: "I think...
...Emmanuel Dongala...
...Early in Emmanuel Dongala’s Little Boys Come from the Stars, Matapari, the young Congolese protagonist, confides, “Honestly, I was almost never born. Maman left the hospital with me still in her womb.” As the youngest of triplets, baby Matapari, whose name means “trouble,” is an anomaly in his village. The midwife and local amateur mystic suspects he is a vengeful ancestor reincarnate, while the town priest stages an exorcism on the baby...
...skates on the first night hoping that over the course of the next few weeks I would learn two new things. I know myself, and myself got Cs in gym; adding two moves is pushing it. But I was only there 15 minutes when that night's instructor, Emmanuel, noticed that I was skating with my right knee stiff and suggested that I bend it a couple of inches, just as I was already bending my left one. It sounds subtle, but it was as if I'd been chopping garlic with the blunt side of a knife my whole...
...they still serve a need for some students, but it seems that they are declining in popularity. According to this year's College Board survey, just 4% of young women expressed interest in applying to all-female schools--the lowest percentage in 12 years. Faced with fewer women applicants, Emmanuel College in Boston and Notre Dame College of Ohio in Cleveland this fall announced they would begin admitting men in 2001. Since 1997, four other women's colleges have gone coeducational. And in July, Trinity College in Burlington, Vt., announced it would close. While the most prestigious schools, such...