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...Inevitably, some purists are voicing objections to what they see as the bastardization of a Chinese cultural icon. Zhang's relentless promotion of modernized Kunqu - he thinks nothing of hiring out performers for appearances in shopping malls and as entertainment at A-list cocktail parties - hasn't helped. "Kunqu should be left alone," says Gu Duhuang, a veteran Kunqu director from Suzhou and one of the most virulent critics. "It is heritage and no heritage needs to be modernized." Not all young people are convinced either. "The true beauty of Kunqu is in its singing, as well as the extreme...
...revolution; a poem he wrote on the day of his arrest promised to "kill capitalism," and sought to give heart to those "brothers in slavery (jailed by) the traitors of our country, those agents of capitalism." Little wonder, then, that Môquet has always been a preferred icon of France's Communist Party. In leftist solidarity, the opposition Socialists accuse Sarkozy of seeking to requisition a leftist icon to his own ideological ends...
Tuesday's two-hour convoy - which wound through more than four miles of bullet- and bomb-ridden city decimated by the very worst of the war - celebrated the life of Ramadi's favorite son, Sheik Sattar Abu Risha, the romantic icon of the region's sudden turn against al-Qaeda and Islamic extremists. Though Sattar was killed by an insurgent's bomb on Sept. 13, his "Awakening" movement lives on and his image adorned police cars, armored vehicles and city walls for Tuesday's parade marking the end of 40 days of mourning. Hundreds of Iraqi police officers and soldiers...
...matters not just in business. Rock icon Bono gets high marks for his woomanship in promoting social causes. A surprisingly genial visit in 2000 to the archconservative Senator Jesse Helms, during which Bono communed with the septuagenarian politician, yielded an appropriation of $435�million for debt relief for Africa. It wouldn't have happened, say the authors, had it not been for Bono's on-the-spot ability to switch "to a completely different language," abandoning his fact-laden pitch to talk religion with Helms...
Evelyn Lee, assistant manager at The Kong, has encountered similar reactions. “All the students say, ‘You can’t change it, the Kong is an icon as it is,’” says Lee. “But I say how long can an icon last? It has to change somehow sometime...