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...boxing," have their roots in martial training. Chinese acrobatics go back to prehistoric times, when the first farming settlements were begun. Then, or so many experts think, "tricksters" earned their food by performing magic and sleights of hand. Vestiges of this tradition survive in the Shenyang troupe's lion dance, which evolved from the use of animal skins to work a spell on crops, and in their twirling of plates and vases on sticks, which recalls the practice of giving gifts of food to the tricksters. Anthropologists who see a migration across the Bering Strait as the origin...
...week. The younger members, who are first apprenticed at seven or eight, must do their exercises in the morning and then study after lunch. For them especially, the current tour has been an eye opener. Chao Chun, 12, the youngest member on the tour and a star of the lion dance, was asked before he left Peking if he knew where Canada was. "Not exactly," he replied, "but I do know it's very hot there this time of year...
...portrayed as woefully helpless, weepy creatures who would surely perish without men to pull them through. The actors generally do better by the script than it deserves. Stella Stevens, looking well used but winning, is genuinely touching, Shelley Winters engagingly hammy. Gene Hackman, who seems to have the lion's share of the bad lines, nevertheless acquits himself very nicely indeed. There is one scene in which he is required to pray to God, pleading with him and admonishing him, that Hackman, against all odds, manages to make believable...
...lightest division. 118-lbs., captain Dan Blakinger, who lost his first match of the season Thursday, should edge both URI's Richard Adham and Lion co-captain Sal Lanuto. Blakinger handed Lanuto his only loss last year. Finally, John Keough should take the 167-lb. division...
...novels are some of the most fearsome in literature. But Jungians, with their emphasis on myth, are well equipped to deal with beasts in jungles, and soon Staunton has identified a number of monsters, including the manticore-a creature with the head of a man, the body of a lion and the tail of a dragon. It is himself, the barbed and beastly rationalist. The colloquies between patient and healer are of a high order; now and then they veer unexpectedly into a mad kind of comedy, as when he tells of the attempt of his socially ambitious stepmother...