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...through 150 years of Chinese immigration. (America's first female Chinese arrival, Afong Moy, was brought to New York to serve as a living curio in a museum exhibition .) The stories of successive waves of Chinese newcomers who were witnesses and participants in America's most dynamic moments?the Gold Rush, construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, Reconstruction, the civil-rights movement?can't help but be engaging. And Chang, whose 1997 The Rape of Nanking was a bestseller, is a solid storyteller with a good eye for human detail and a strong sense of narrative...
...together. Clint Eastwood, in a reprisal role from A Fistful of Dollars, plays the Good: a gruff silent type with at least a shred of principle. Eli Wallach plays the Bad, a cruel devil named Angel Eyes who’ll do anything to get his hands on the gold. Finally, Tuco is a wild-eyed bandito who’s Ugly any way you look at it. With the trio—and the Civil War—the action approaches today’s Hollywood extravagance. Leone weaves a rich narrative tapestry together, combining gunfighting thrills...
...were saying things about me that simply weren't true, I would have to stand up and defend myself. However, the release of such information, true or not, taints the pool in which possible jurors can be found for a trial. She's been made to look like a gold digger and attention getter, and she may not be at all. She may just be a victim of a horrible crime. Only time will tell. Stephanie Crawford Virginia...
...Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) rankings, Kluft is now the best. Born in V?xjö, she began competing at 15. After setting a new record score at the World Junior Championships in Jamaica last July, she slipped effortlessly up to senior competition less than a month later and won gold at the European championship, setting another new junior record ahead of such seasoned campaigners as Sabine Braun of Germany and Belarus' Natalya Sazanovich. The IAAF dubbed her a "rising star" and a Swedish national radio poll even labeled her Swede of the Year. This year has been just as heady...
...Romney Marsh. He took refuge in geometry, applying a ruler to nature, and seeking out the regularity of fences, planks, horizons. The Shore (1923) shows the seawall at Dymchurch, which holds the water - in his imagination "cold and cruel" - back from the marsh. A stark composition of gray, blue, gold and terracotta, it shows no trace of life - human, animal or vegetable. Nash flirted with abstraction and Surrealism, asking in 1932 "whether it is possible to 'go modern' and still 'be British.'" In 1933 he helped found Unit One, a movement that aimed to revitalize British art by embracing Continental...