Word: fu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebratory moves of the genre, in addition to which its subject is no bearded duffer moping around a laboratory or gallant, tear-streaked lady belatedly triumphing over a dismal affliction, but a movie star (of sorts) who specialized in doing a highly cinematic thing -- namely a form of kung fu, all lightning reactions and fluid, swirling choreography. Moreover, the movie retains that air of breathless awe and dauntless approval that has always made movie biographies . such a pleasant relief from the gloomy ambiguities of written ones...
Funke said the damaged Fu dog, which students said was purchased within the last two years for around $3000, is irreplaceable...
DiCiccio said he then caught up with the student with the Fu dog, who by then had already dropped the object...
According to Curator of Chinese Art in the Harvard University Art Museums Robert D. Mowry, "the Fu dog is a physical manifestation, an suspicious emblem without specific meaning...
...Fu" means "Buddhist dog" in English, he said...