Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earnestly explores the Eastern and Western concepts of honor and duty as they play out in Kai's relations with his family, in a romance with an Asian- American heiress and especially at West Point, where Kai is recruited to uncover a cheating scandal. These plots never intersect, but with pungent humor and a subtle working of the themes of his title, Lee still manages to combine them into a powerful coming-of-age story...
...beginning of the movie, my friend leaned over and whispered "What if the whole movie is this chase?" Well, he was right; the movie begins with a guy kidnapping a babelicious heiress and hitting the road for Mexico in her car, and that's it, the chase keeps up until the movie ends. Oh, what a devious way to undermine the function of the Chase in film! Wait until the French get a hold of this! What we get is a surreal and paradoxical mix of "high-speed" vibes (mostly due to speedy cuts from shot to shot) and incredibly...
...other national pavilions, the best is the American one, showing sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. Now 81 and at the top of her form, Bourgeois is the chief heiress of Surrealist obsession in America. Though her work is sometimes overpraised for feminist reasons, it carries a deep strand of % recollection interwoven with sexual fantasy and dreams of vengeance, refracted through strange uses of material. Included in the Venice show are some of her recent cage sculptures, including Cell (Choisy), a harsh essay on memory: inside an iron-mesh enclosure is a pink marble effigy of her childhood home in France, where...
...Manhattan courtroom, right next door to the Woody Allen-vs.-Mia Farrow soap opera, Ivan Boesky, 56, out of prison but exiled from Wall Street, began his latest takeover attempt. He is demanding nearly $50 million in alimony from his former wife, Seema Boesky, 50ish, a wealthy heiress in her own right. He claims that he made her "rich beyond her imagination," and that even though some of these riches resulted from his own illegal activities, he still deserves half of them...
...many blacks and other minorities can be found working in jobs that don't come with a uniform. Though George Bush signed a landmark disabled- rights law, Clinton and Gore have disabled people on their staffs. Visitors to the Bush White House were typically greeted by a perfectly accessorized heiress who escorted guests to the aide (always male) they wished to see. Now, more typically, a geeky-looking 23-year-old male wearing two beepers escorts visitors to see the woman with whom they have an appointment...