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...with domestic audiences because of their musty themes (The Emperor and the Assassin). Feng makes the light-hearted comedies that draw the big Chinese crowds. Unlike Zhang and Chen, Feng eschews sweeping epic dramas with brocaded courtesans or peasants tilling unforgiving earth, preferring to tell tales of China's glorious, go-go present. His characters are tour guides and Ikea-shopping yuppies. They don't struggle with injustice or political strife, but have trouble with relationships and flatulence. "I want my films to reflect the real China," says the 43-year-old director. "Western audiences may expect an old, exotic...
...first, Warner was searching for a connection between the present and China's brief but glorious seafaring past. In Nanjing he found it: a direct, 19th-generation descendant of the Grand Eunuch's favorite adopted nephew, named Zheng Zhihai (which means from the sea). This modest 53-year-old, dressed in a rumpled suit, hasn't exactly followed in his ancestor's glorious naval tradition; Zheng works as a toilet engineer in a Nanjing factory. Still, while China had largely forgotten his heroic ancestor, Zheng says family legends kept his exploits very much alive. Tales of his voyages were passed...
...Dear Hawthornius,” Longfellow wrote, “not the comet himself can unfold a more glorious tail...
...would disagree with my fellow Washington interns who whine about the occasionally boring and unchallenging nature of their jobs and who simply appropriate Peter’s pain as their own. I know that being an intern isn’t the most glorious job in the world. In fact, I’m sure I’ve done as much boring office work this summer as I did last summer, when I worked for the litigation department of a law firm back home. But I would be lying if I reported that my current job is as tedious...
...final day as a player, at Wimbledon in 1999, stands like a doorway between his glorious past and his soiled present. Becker, who'd made his name serving and volleying, lost in straight sets in the fourth round to serve-and-volley specialist Pat Rafter. Becker knew he was done. He had liked sitting in the locker room during the rain delays that day, talking to older players back for seniors matches, but he felt removed from the whole scene, as if watching someone else complete his career. After losing he met with the press and began drinking. Barbara...