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...Honolulu. Starting in high school as a pencil and thermometer salesman, Ho built a real estate empire that stretched from California to Hong Kong. Ho, the first man of Asian ancestry to be named president of the Honolulu stock exchange, was also the putative model for Hong Kong Kee, the wily businessman who outsmarts the white hierarchy in James Michener's Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 25, 1987 | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...evil, darkly-clad figure (Charles Dance) invades the temple and, with the help of his marauders, kidnaps the youngster. Cut to Los Angeles, where Chandler Jarrell (Murphy) is a finder of lost children. He is, according to ancient scrolls, the "Chosen One," destined to rescue the boy. Persuaded by Kee Nang (Charlotte Lewis), a beautiful Tibetan, Jarrell takes on this unusual case. The rest of the plot is easy to predict, but Eddie Murphy is hard to resist...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 12/18/1986 | See Source »

...uncommonly cross about cicadas and complain that their song is nerve-racking. In Missouri, these days, it is constant and pervasive. The cicadas have three things to say. One is a steady, insistent, buzzy trill: zs-zs-zs-zs-zs. It is a background to a more varied kee-o-keeeee-o-kee-o that punctuates the steady drone. When picked up and held, the cicadas emit a sharp bzz-t-byzzt that sounds troubled and probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Missouri: the Cicada's Song | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...Kee-o-keeeee-o-kee-o, he says zestfully right into my ear. He sounds pleased with himself; I know I am mightily pleased with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Missouri: the Cicada's Song | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...children about," said Anita Saunders, a high-stepper with the Locke Senior High School marching band, "and everybody else." Said Judi Missett, president of Jazzercise and one of 263 Jazzercise instructors who danced to Sing, Sing, Sing: "When I'm 85, I can hold my grandchildren on my kee and say, 'Remember the '84 Olympics? Well, Grandma was there.'" Mel Carpenter, a Hacienda Heights dentist who brought to the show the 200 white homing pigeons that circled around toward the end, got into the act on a mission of peace. Carpenter thinks the doves mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Hooray for Hollywood | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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