Word: fu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inspired partly by Kung Fu movies and African dance styles, black and Hispanic teen-agers invented breaking more than ten years ago in New York City's South Bronx. Its name, some say, came from the percussive instrumental break in soul-music songs. The dance caught the fancy of the press about two years ago and was propelled into fame by music videos and such recent films as Breakin ', which earned $36 million, and Beat Street ($16 million). Breakin' has sold more than a million copies, and music to break by continues to sizzle on the charts...
...have a dream," exulted an Avon spot over a shot of women donning their running shoes. The Arco tots, a pack of three-or four-year-old boys and girls, raced toward the camera. As a little girl in pigtails broke the tape, her look of triumph bespoke a fu ture unimaginable even ten years ago. Once she would have been called a tomboy. Now she is called an athlete...
...Fu Hsing Rang College...
...Hall lowers his eyelids until he resembles Fu Manchu and says, "It's been a year of controversy, but no more or less than other years. I've had ups, downs, good years, bad ones. I've been constantly challenged, praised, abused, damned. Running the National Theater is a bit like being Nelson's Column out there with all those pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Personally, I can't tell you where I am. But I can tell you where the National is. It is extremely successful. Until I read John Goodwin's editing...
These are inferences the talented Hui allows the viewer to draw; but the pace is hardly ruminative. Mostly, Boat People motors along with Kung Fu industry: visiting a "chicken farm," where the ten-year-old and his sisters scavenge the effects of recently executed prisoners; negotiating a field laced with land mines, a legacy of the U.S. involvement; gazing unflinchingly as the children's mother impales herself on a hook; tracing the attempt of the children and their benefactor, a Japanese photographer (Lam Chi-cheung), to bribe and fight their way to "freedom," which here is just another word...