Word: hwang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Butterfly," East meets West meets "The Crying Game," with dismal results. The film, adapted for the screen by David Henry Hwang from his award-winning play, tries hard (and fails) to say something about sex, race and fantasy...
...want other religious people to come and see our activities," said board member Reverend Hwagong Hwang, a second-year candidate for a Masters in Theological Studies at the Divinity School and a Korean Son Buddhist monk...
...first general meeting of the community took place last Wednesday at the Rockefeller Refectory. "We expected 30 people, but more than 40 came,"Hwang said...
Events will be scheduled on an irregular basis,organizers said. Hwang said one problem is thatthe group does not have a temple in which toworship...
...Hwang's play was based on the incredible but true story of a French diplomatic attache in Beijing who conducted a 17-year sexual affair with a Chinese spy posing as an opera singer and never suspected that the lady was a man. (According to Liaison, Joyce Wadler's fascinating new biography of the diplomat, the opera singer was able to fold his genitals inside his body, thus giving the naked illusion of femininity.) Hwang spins a phantasm of multiple myopia: a man preposterously blinded by love, a European culture blinkered by imperialist prejudice in its view of the mystic...