Word: fu
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fu Hustle...
...weakness for some West Side Story choreography, 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. Chow wanted to explore and update the antique styles of kung fu, so he cast veterans of 70s Hong Kong action pics, among them Yuen Qiu (who?s a hoot as the Alley?s 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...
...flying through the air and amazing kung-fu were not enough, Ziyi Zhang (“House of Flying Daggers”) has now added fan dancing and pouring tea to her list of accomplishments—both of which she performs gracefully in Rob Marshall’s (“Chicago”) production of “Memoirs of a Geisha.” “Memoirs of a Geisha” boasts an acting team of international superstars like Zhang, Michelle Yeoh (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”), and Gong...
...Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. A survey taken last January of seven major Chinese cities found that among those 14 to 20, the average age of first sexual experience was 17.4, while those 31 to 40 had lost their virginity much later, at 24.1 years old. Says Fu Zhen, 28, a teacher in Shanghai: "My parents' only entertainment came from revolutionary movies, so they were very conservative about sex. My generation, we see everything from everywhere, and we are hungry for new experiences." As if to underline the point, Fu has adopted the nickname Carrie--as in Bradshaw...
...occasional eccentricity: Spare Change Man (“Sir? Girl. Girl you’re lookin’ lovely this evenin’!”), the speed-chess players, and the phony beggars with their signs (“Family killed by Ninjas; need money for Kung Fu lessons”).It would be easy to think this is a big problem. The Phillips Brooks House Association thinks students should all get more involved, stating among its primary objectives the “[promotion of] social awareness and community involvement at Harvard and beyond...