Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last seen 23 years ago on a weekend visit from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The National Merit scholarship finalist, the winner of a Betty Crocker Homemaker award, the valedictorian of Marycrest, her Catholic high school in Colorado, Katherine Ann Power was the family's "pride and joy," says her older brother. She gave no hint that she was anything but a sweet and bookish child happy to be with the large Power brood...
...page, sound torn from the depths of a great and dangerous soul. She has less to do in Black Comedy, but as a spinster liberated in the dark -- literally -- to indulge dreamy fantasies of booze and sex, she melds exquisite comic timing and gesture with spontaneous sweetness and joy...
...French, of course, take the question seriously. Each day during August, the newspaper Liberation devoted a full page to leading pontificators on the art of feeling good. Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of oceanographer Jacques, recently proposed creating a "Science of Joy" in which "happinessologists" would study gaiety in all its guises. Several neurologists in Paris even claim they can use thermography to record changes in the brain generated by le bonheur to determine who is really content...
...Festival opens with M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg's film of the David Henry Hwang play about a tryst between a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) and a Chinese man (John Lone) whom he believes to be a woman; it opens commercially Oct. 1. This Wednesday, Wayne Wang's lovely The Joy Luck Club, a fourfold Terms of Endearment based on Amy Tan's best-selling novel about a quartet of Chinese-American families, premieres in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. "Maybe Asian is the flavor of the month," Wang says. "That taste keeps changing, but now it has coincided...
...exposing this wound, Tiana means to see it heal; she has established the Indochina Film Arts Commission as a friendship bridge between Vietnam and the U.S. Her film goes beyond Asian chic to Asian soul. It joins Joy Luck Club, The Wedding Banquet and Farewell My Concubine in offering a lesson that applies to all families, Asian and American: Never forget, only forgive...