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Before shooting, Zhang and her young screen lover Chang worked with an acting coach. Chow and Yeoh crammed to speak Mandarin. And throughout, Lee was learning the limitations in the laws of stunt physics from the martial master Yuen. Movies are an education on the fly, with pop quizzes every moment. How apt, then, that the theme of Crouching Tiger should be teaching. In this war of the generations, the adults are as eager to instruct the young as the kids are to rebel against authority. In life as in martial arts, knowledge is power. And only the most powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Year Of The Tiger | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

HOME-ROASTED COFFEE INVENTOR: SWISSMAR In their reckless pursuit of the freshest cup of coffee, java jocks are worse than drug addicts. Alpenrost, the first home coffee roaster, could be the ultimate enabler on the coffee lover's road to destruction. Pour in green coffee beans (Swissmar supplies them), press a button and 25 minutes later you have fresh-roasted coffee beans. If that's too long to wait, check yourself into a clinic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will They Think Of Next? | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...have strongly mixed feelings about whether animals belong in the circus or not. The traditionalist in me says keep 'em in - I can't imagine a circus without animals. The animal lover in me, while thrilled just to catch a glimpse of them, often veers between discomfort and amazement at the unusual acts they are made to perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fears of a Clown | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...Here is the riddle: Did the barbaric princess urge her lover to choose the door leading to marriage to a beautiful young woman of whom the princess was already jealous? Or did she direct him to choose the tiger, and his own death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Out. Take a Break. Play 'The Lady or the Tiger' | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...Twentieth Century." Schlesinger says that the game of The Lady or the Tiger became widely popular when Stockton proposed it more than a century ago. The poet Robert Browning announced that he "had no hesitation in supposing that such a princess under such circumstances would direct her lover to the tiger's door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Out. Take a Break. Play 'The Lady or the Tiger' | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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