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...more than the increasingly common disdain many Chinese appear to feel for the army they saw as their great protector before it marched on Tiananmen, this small, fine-boned woman with searing brown eyes and a complexion Margaret Thatcher would compare to a rose recites some lines of Du Fu, the 8th century poet famous for decrying the gulf between ruled and ruler in China: "So it is better to abandon a daughter at birth than to see her later married to a soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...school prohibits male hair below the shoulders. Theirs reaches the middle of their backs. Last year short-haired Wilkinson tutored them at home, but was later fined $25 for violating the compulsory school-attendance law. He has hired a lawyer, Darrell McAlexander, with shoulder-length hair and a drooping Fu Manchu mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: A Hairy Legal Issue | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...Mississippi Burning's two main fictional conceits: that the FBI broke the case in part by locating not the fear and greed of a Klan informant, but the flinty, vindictive soul of Southern integrity. The other conceit is as low-road as the plot twist in a kung fu scuzzathon. The film imagines that the FBI imported a free-lance black operative to terrorize the town's mayor into revealing the murderers' names. Taken (like much else in the picture) from a report in William Bradford Huie's 1965 casebook, Three Lives for Mississippi, the scene invariably gooses a cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire This Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...first, short-track skating looks less like a sport than a kung-fu gang war on ice, the combatants wielding giant switchblades with their feet. Skaters jostle and bump around the perpetual curves of the 111-meter loop, and when one loses a jot of control, three are likely to careen across the water- slickened ice. But as Olympic spectators have seen, short-track racing is an intricate sport, replete with complex strategies. Since up to six skaters start at once, it has the drama of a pack of competitors struggling cheek to cheek -- battle like it oughta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: In the Aftermath, Grousing About the U.S. | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...This year, we were introduced earlier and people were more receptive, instead of saying, `Who are you?'" said Fu, adding that almost every prefect is more active than last year...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Improved Prefect System Confronts Yard's Apathy | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

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