Word: lu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...student: "Everybody knew he was destined to do so much in music." For all his current stress on roots, Wynton showed little interest in the New Orleans jazz tradition while growing up there. His main exposure to jazz came from listening to his father's modern quintet play at Lu and Charlie's, a restaurant on the edge of the French Quarter. He never heard any of the older musicians playing at Preservation Hall -- neither, in fact, did his father have any real contact with that world. The closest Wynton came to performing jazz in those years was working with...
...gotten to the point where they're protesting everything," said law student Christopher P. Lu as he passed. Lu had two interviews on his schedule yesterday...
...Wiesel's moral authority that brought together Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela; Jimmy Carter and Francois Mitterrand; the authors Gunter Grass and Nadine Gordimer; Chai Ling and Li Lu, leaders of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square -- an astonishing collection of Nobel prizewinners, professors, rectors, saints. A man could not make his way through the SAS Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo without ricocheting off one paragon or another. Such saturations of virtue and celebrity gave me a jolt of anxiety: this is a perfect target for a bomb. But the choice of Oslo was canny. Norway has its immunities...
...reportedly living in Southern California, has said through third parties that he is in the U.S. to vacation and conduct "a broad survey of American society." So far, he has visited the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. His friend Lu Keng, a Hong Kong journalist, says this "research" will keep Xu in America "for quite some time." Says Lu: "My feeling is that he won't go back to China until Li Peng is no longer in power. He may want to avoid retaliation." Xu's old associates in Beijing may be cursing him, but Lu says the former envoy...
Daily Life in the Forbidden City by Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing and Lu Yanzhen (Viking; $75). As the Son of Heaven moved through his palaces, the Hall of Luminous Benevolence, the Gate of Divine Prowess, there was everywhere beauty to behold. The Palace Museum in Beijing has assembled a sumptuous record of this quotidian splendor...