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When Tsui Hark last year became the first Chinese director to serve on the Cannes Film Festival jury, some feared the experience might corrupt him. Would he start making his movies with a Gallic flair, replacing cut-and-slash kung fu with fashionable explorations of anomie? Would the Riviera sunlight cook his brain until he was convinced that he must forsake epic gangster cinema for experiments in narrative impenetrability? Would Hong Kong's action godfather, the man who introduced the world to John Woo and Jet Li, lose his Hong Kongness...
...according to Henderson, “any Democratic nominee would want Rubin’s support because it would hark back to the economic glory days of the Clinton administration...
Today's difficulties have led many West Europeans to hark back with nostalgia to the '50s and '60s, the golden age of the dream of Continental unity. By 1957, with the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the European Economic Community had come into existence. The agreement committed the original six members--France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Italy--gradually to eliminate trade barriers and harmonize economic policies...
...program began in spring of 2003, when then-residential tutor Aaron S. Allen decided to organize a woodwork exhibit in Mather’s Three Columns Gallery. There, students gathered round as artist Alan Hark showed how to make bowls on a lathe set up in the lobby. The demonstrations quickly turned into short tutorials, which quickly turned into hour-long lessons, which quickly turned into weekly classes, says Mather resident Jessica L. Jones...
...Hark also testifies to the classes’ spiritual power, describing the process of woodturning as “advancing an awareness of my connection with my subconscious and a universal awareness that is expressed in the product of my work at the lathe...