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...vocal authority and concert-stage charisma served Mui well when she made films. She lent coherence and gravity to such doomed characters as Fleur, the ghost lover of Leslie Cheung in Stanley Kwan's Rouge (for which she won the 1989 Hong Kong Film Award for best actress), and a Chinese spy in Eddie Fong's The Last Princess of Manchuria. In the latter, she played the real-life title character Kawashima Yoshiko, who spied for the Japanese during the occupation, and Mui was cold steel personified. She slapped men's faces, spat out her scorn at those who would...
Matthews’ experience in politics has lent him a unique perspective as a journalist, according to David R. Gergen, a professor of public service at the Kennedy School of Government, White House adviser to four presidents and former editor of U.S. News and World Report...
...first record, and my career was thriving. I was shuttling between Connecticut and the folk venues of Greenwich Village and traveling the circuit throughout the country, getting to know kindred spirits such as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. I lent my support by singing in Mississippi during the voter-registration drive for African Americans in 1964 and at rallies protesting the Vietnam...
...families are extremely grateful and very supportive of us and want their children in BRYE,” Tsang says. The support from the community and the continuity lent to BRYE by its term-time tutoring program, in which Nguyen teaches many of the same students she has in the summer, helps BRYE bring the kids up to speed. According to Tsang, the kids are far behind in their literacy skills when they’re thrown into the Boston Public Schools, but since “they’re smart kids and really motivated to learn, it?...
House then lent her female perspective, shedding some important light on the subject of doing, dumping and marrying. “Dump Sharon because he’s an asshole!” said House...