Word: fu
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...ballet school during the Cultural Revolution was not all tutus and toe shoes. Beloved teachers cleaned toilets; students spent their summers toiling alongside farmers or factory workers; and more class time was devoted to the study of political movements than to dance movements. At Madame Mao's insistence, kung fu kicks and death stares were introduced to mincing ballet routines. "The dancing looked all right," she once observed during a visit to the school, "but where are the guns? Where are the grenades...
Yang’s wife, Harvard medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, has said that Yang was placed in solitary confinement with handcuffs until his hands became bloodied and infected following his attempts to protest his detention...
...Fu could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...popular athletes are now picked by the free market. Liu Xuan, a pert gold medalist at the Games in Sydney, works as a model and starred as a plucky migrant worker in a movie called Far from Home. Fellow gymnast Li Xiaoshuang has recorded an album of pop ditties. Fu Mingxia, the legendary diver who first struck gold as a teddy-bear-carrying 13-year-old in Barcelona, has appeared on Sprite cans. "Sports is an industry now," says Guo, declining like a seasoned pro to discuss the details of her endorsement contracts. "It's another example of how economic...
...times before landing on its subject, then skips assuredly from comedy to horror, with a pretty plot twist at the end. It's all prime Pedro. Like Bad Education, House of Flying Daggers marks a relaxation, but not a reduction, for a world-class director. Hero, Zhang's kung fu classic of 2002, was a meditative, superbly color-coded parable of love and death. Daggers is a jauntier piece, as renegade killer femmes do fantastic battle with the 9th century cops who pursue and fall in love with them. The Almodóvar and Zhang films foregrounded a crucial movie...