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...suitably accoutered, Mei Yang seduces the wife of Kuen (Kent Chung), a brutal silk merchant. Humiliated, Kuen leaves the town and becomes a gardener in the house where Yuk Heung languishes. Mei Yang is taken in by a pair of lesbian cousins with a penchant for flutes, food and S&M. Engaged in Blakean excess, Mei Yang is unaware that, perhaps to justify the "Zen" in the title, a day of reckoning awaits...
...plan that predated the Jan. 6 attack in Detroit. Three of the arrested men -- Eckardt; hit man Shane Stant, 22; and getaway driver Derrick Smith, 29 -- have told investigators that during the final days of 1993, they conspired with Gillooly to attack Kerrigan while she trained at the Tony Kent Arena on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. An 11-page affidavit, prepared by the Multnomah County sheriff's office in Oregon and made public last week, states that Eckardt initially claimed that Harding did not know about the plot. But under two days of FBI interrogation, - the affidavit says, Eckardt recalled Gillooly...
...allegations that dog Harding emanate largely from rumor and anonymously sourced press reports. The only evidence in the affidavit that may begin to implicate Harding is a phone record of four calls placed between Dec. 28 and Jan. 3 from the cabin she shares with Gillooly to the Tony Kent Arena. The calls, however, could have been made by Gillooly -- or even by Eckardt himself...
...some crucial respects a Catholic still, and his work is charged with religious references and rhapsodic diatribes of moral insult that verge on panic. Jesus makes frequent guest appearances, and so do felt banners that parody the soppy semiabstract devotional art of the all-but-forgotten Sister Corita Kent, a liberal nun of the '60s. I AM USELESS TO THE CULTURE, BUT GOD LOVES ME, one of | Kelley's banners reads. He is as deeply immersed in the religious aura of his infancy, pre-Vatican II, as any Chicano postmodernist doing lurid Madonnas...
...Diet victory. "There is a saying that 99 miles are only halfway for a traveler on a 100-mile journey," he said. "We're not halfway there yet." Political analysts contend, however, that change is irrevocably taking hold. "There is a progressive unraveling of the old system," says Kent Calder, director of the U.S.-Japan program at Princeton University. "I think we are in a reinforcing cycle of change, where one thing leads to another and unlocks new possibilities. It is a building revolution...