Word: hao
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...boldness is as least as much sexual as political. The lead character, Yu Hong, is a bundle of very Western-style neuroses, and a one-woman sexual liberation army. Her love scenes have a volcanic intensity not seen before in a Mainland Chinese film, and Hao Lei, the young actress who plays Yu Hong, has an urgent eroticism that mesmerizes the audience (or at least this member of it). She made me think both of the young Joan Chen, who was a teen idol before coming to the West in the early '80s, and of the divine, androgynous Leslie Cheung...
...Halfway through, when the story moves from Beijing to Berlin, the film careers off the tracks, and I wouldn't recommend it in toto. But I respect Lou Ye's audacity. And I'll be watching for Hao Lei, while hoping that other Chinese filmmakers, who routinely tilt against their government, can some day be as unfettered in their approach to affairs of the bedroom as to affairs of state...
...Silver but Unsafe? Re "The Rise and Fall and Rise of A Skating Superpower" [Feb. 27], about the Chinese ascendancy in figure skating: Time said the pairs figure-skating team of Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao "nabbed the silver." Nabbed indeed. Zhang Hao flung his partner into the air with all the grace of a stevedore hurling a sack of cement onto a ship. That Zhang Dan didn't sustain a more serious injury is a miracle. Zhang Hao's seeming disregard for the safety of his partner was nothing but a savage show of physical strength and should have...
...military is capable of taking them on. Pete Castelluccio Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Silver but Unsafe? Re "The rise and fall and rise of a skating superpower" [Feb. 27], about the Chinese ascendancy in figure skating: Time said the pairs figure-skating team of Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao "nabbed the silver." Nabbed indeed. Zhang Hao flung his partner into the air with all the grace of a stevedore hurling a sack of cement onto a ship. That Zhang Dan didn't sustain a more serious injury is a miracle. Zhang Hao's seeming disregard for the safety of his partner...
...year-old hobbled to the side before returning a couple of minutes later. The pair went on to perform a nearly flawless routine, even though Zhang Dan was so sore she could barely complete her runner-up victory lap. "We are the offspring of dragons," a tearful Zhang Hao, 21, told reporters. "It was just like fighting in a battle. We will cherish this silver medal...