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...screen actor from the age of 19, Beijing-born Li has known nothing but attention for every one of his 45 years. But the smiles that emanate from the trailing multitudes are often of a different kind now. They are not just the silly simpers that form in response to a celebrity sighting. They are also the warm, seraphic beams accorded to individuals who walk a righteous path. People generally don't ask Li to do flying kicks or the wushu horse stance for the camera these days. They don't even want his autograph much. What they want...
...randomly enrolled in a wushu class during a summer sports program. He had no idea what wushu was, which isn't surprising. At that time, wushu was only 13 years old. It was a committee-ordained synthesis of the various age-old Chinese combat forms (wushu literally means "martial arts"), intended to create a new codified sport. Emphasis was placed on the solo execution of martial stances and routines, and the system of point-scoring rewarded purity of form. In effect, it was a Chinese form of gymnastics, and Chinese officialdom was rather proud of it, making it an integral...
...film corpus. In Bruce Lee's action movies, the Eurasian outsider fought for no greater cause than himself (the sole exception is 1972's Fist of Fury, in which he battled the cocksure Japanese). Jackie Chan made the action-comedy subgenre his own, reducing martial arts to a form of slapstick. Li, however, has most often played the sober upholder of national pride...
...assume GM must be saved in its present form? Why not merge it with another automaker? Toyota comes to mind. The two companies already jointly operate the NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc) facility in California, where both GM and Toyota autos are produced. Why not take that joint venture further? Stephen V. Gilmore, Charlotte, North Carolina...
...flavor-of-the-month teaching experiment in New York City, tells us that preschoolers are encouraged "to mess with shaving cream" [Nov. 22]. I expect that with such "encouragement," the little darlings in a few years will take up aerosol paint cans and leave their creative tags in the form of graffiti on public landmarks. But no doubt such "messing" with spray paint is just another form of self-expression. Richard Orlando, Montreal, Canada