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Want to see a great kiss? There's one in 2046, between Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Gong Li. He stands her against a wall and presses mouth to mouth. He moves back, and we see her lipstick violently smeared. A tear courses down her right cheek, another down her left. It's an avalanche of a kiss; it has crushed not just her lips but also her heart...
...follow-up to Wong's In the Mood for Love, about the furtive affair of a journalist, Chow (Leung), and a woman (Maggie Cheung) living in the same boardinghouse. Now Chow, relocated to a hotel, has erotic adventures with a prostitute (Zhang Ziyi), a gambler (Gong Li), a vamp named Lulu (Carina Lau) and the hotel manager's beguiling daughter (Faye Wong), who is also a mysterious android in the science-fiction novel Chow is trying to write...
...begin to spend more, export-led economies everywhere will be less dependent upon U.S. spending for growth, reducing the risk of a recession should American consumers falter. The 2.1% rise in the yuan "is a baby step, but it is the start of a very important process," says Frank Gong, chief China economist for JPMorgan. Over the long term, he adds, China's yuan reform could bring about "more balanced global growth...
...Rowling’s first novel, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” was published in the U.S., the beginning of a seven-book sensation that has made Rowling richer than the Queen of England and turned thousands of readers, like Gong, into Potter fanatics...
After midnight tonight, Gong faces a solid weekend of non-stop reading and preparing lists of cross-references with the earlier volumes. She hopes to begin the reading marathon on her walk back home from the Harvard Book Store. (She plans to carry a flashlight...