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Those were the poles of his sensibility. He was capable of making something as funny as the great cross-dressing farce, Tootsie, or as dark as his take on depression-era America, They Shoot Horses Don't They? But his filmography is marked most indelibly by the lush romanticism of...
A Nation's Agony If the crisis had a defining moment, it came on May 19 at 2:28 p.m., exactly a week after the Wenchuan quake, named for the county at the epicenter. That was when the entire country paused for three minutes to remember the dead. Traffic came...
If the crisis had a defining moment, it came on May 19 at 2:28 p.m., exactly a week after the quake. That was when the entire country paused for three minutes. Traffic came to a halt, flags were lowered to half-mast, and Chinese everywhere stood in oft tearful...
On May 19 at 2:28 p.m., the military rescue forces in town marked the one-week anniversary of the earthquake by blasting the horns of their vehicles, part of national period of mourning that will last three days. The death toll has now surpassed 34,000, and the government...
A Bias Against China? In previous issues, TIME has indeed given much time to the political aspirations of some Tibetans, despite their violent protests. But in "Why China's Burning Mad," peaceful protests were marked as "virulent nationalism" with little serious reflection on the nature of the protesters' beliefs [May...