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Ever since then, there's been a difference of opinion between Main Street and the Beltway. American citizens turned their back on a nation they judged morally and politically beyond the pale, and public opinion has yet to recover. But policymakers couldn't quite do the same, recognizing that the U.S. had no option but to deal with China. Its rising power made it a force to be reckoned with, like it or not. And so Clinton, after some I'll-do-it-different demagoguery of his own, became the sixth President since Richard Nixon opened...
...Freedman's] main goal is to get the time and space to write a book and we want to honor that," Murphy said...
...fact, it is Captain Herndon, not Mark Twain, who is the link to Tommy Thompson, and Thompson who is the main figure of what is so far the summer's best nonfiction adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (Atlantic Monthly; 507 pages; $27.50). As author Gary Kinder relates, in 1857, some years after making his exploration and writing his book, Herndon had charge of a large paddle-wheel steamer bound from the Panamanian port city of Aspinwall, now known as Colon, to New York City. The S.S. Central America carried 500 passengers, many of them returning...
...production is the brainchild of New York City theatrical designers Ken Billington and Kenneth Foy. Its centerpiece is a 50,000-lb. steel-and-Plexiglas modular stage that resembles those used by touring rock bands. The main playing area is flanked by twin lighting towers and live-action video screens, and three additional upstage screens are used for scenic projections. The entire package can be loaded into six tractor trailers, and a state-of-the-art sound system facilitates performances in large outdoor amphitheaters...
...matchmaker scene that seems to revel in inflicting pain--and yearning romance. It has some star voices, like Eddie Murphy, very funny as the Mushu shrimp, and a fine cast of East Asian and Asian-American actors (Ming-Na Wen, B.D. Wong, Soon-Tek Oh, James Shigeta) playing the main characters. But what's terrific about Mulan is its reaching for emotions that other movies run from: family love and duty, personal honor and group commitment, obedience and ingenuity. Nice notions for kids to think about...