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...wildly gifted director, until this Buster Keaton--esque martial-arts comedy? In old Shanghai, a gang has scared everyone off the streets--everyone except the harder-than-jade residents of Pig Sty Alley, who help turn a mobster wannabe (Chow) into a Bruce Lee gotta-be. Behind the frantic fun is a directorial eye so acute it makes most Hollywood directors seem myopic...
...bullying landlady), Chan?s boyhood schoolmate Yuen Wah (as the henpecked landlord) and Bruce Leung (as the mild-mannered ultimate warrior, the Beast). But though Chow the actor doesn?t take center stage until the second hour, Chow the auteur is fully in change. Behind the movie?s frantic fun is a directorial eye so acute it makes most Hollywood directors seem myopic...
...what doesn’t work.” Ah, there’s the rub—that heretofore missing quality of “knowledge of what works and what doesn’t work.”Candidates, all of them, are suffering delusions. Given the frantic tenor of campaigning, it might appear as though people actually care about the council. But they do not. Just behold how few contenders there were for UC representative spots this September, at a time when discontent was rife. One recent town-hall meeting, called to discuss the supposedly contentious issue...
...CIAO! CIAO!? It's lunchtime in Milan, Italy, when most Milanese traditionally settle into a nice plate of risotto. But inside the Dolce & Gabbana flagship store on Via della Spiga, the mood is frantic, with shoppers young and old slapping down credit cards for the label's signature $2,900 pin-striped pantsuits and $3,500 fur-trimmed coats. It seems there are not enough salespeople to handle the traffic, so Alberto Addis, the store's visual merchandiser, is lending a hand, greeting two women who have wandered past the acres of shiny black-glass walls and Murano-glass...
...back.“Her calmness really helps us through intense game situations,” says fellow senior Maureen McCaffery, herself a study in clutch cool—her long-range shooting down the stretch helped defeat Dartmouth in March.“She is never frantic, always level, and she makes all of us feel the same calmness when we play with her.”And so the countdown closes in on home tip-off. Not even Holsey knows yet what she has in store for Fairfield, the Crimson’s first visitor to Lavietes Pavilion...