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...generation of Chinese filmmakers, Xu may one day take on the mantle worn by venerable directors like Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, Raise the Red Lantern). Zhang helped introduce Chinese cinema to global audiences, first with finely rendered political allegories and then with more muscular martial-arts epics. On the other hand, Xu--a factory owner's daughter who grew up in go-go China--focuses on what she knows and feels. In her 2002 directorial debut, My Father and I, she explored the upended Confucian hierarchy of contemporary urban Chinese society. That effort, in which she also played...
Malkin also contributed to the renovation of the MAC facilities in 1985, a gift that led Harvard to rename the athletic center after him. Before Malkin’s contribution to the renovation, women’s lockers and the ballet and martial arts facilities did not exist and the weight room was outdated...
...always at the mercy of Betty's genius for sabotaging her own security and picking up the wrong bloke at the pub. Amid this culture of poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, alcoholism and fear, Sayer blossoms. She finds ways to escape the misery, if only in bursts, through poetry, martial arts and music. Friends drop in and out, as does Gerry, but Sayer's resilience is the bedrock of the story. There's a charm and grace (and goofiness) in the adolescent Sayer, whose telling evokes the quiet dignity Henry Lawson found a century ago in the "sallow faces...
...express instructions of his patrol leader. When the patrol leader learned about this, "I told him, 'We'll talk later,'" he says. Section J of the rules of engagement issued to all coalition troops states that "Looting and the taking of war trophies are prohibited." "It's a court-martial offense," says the leader. "People get thrown out of the Army...
...Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates. Yoga is an ancient Indian discipline that links stretching exercises, breathing and meditation through the repetition of a series of poses, or asanas. Tai Chi is a slow-motion Chinese martial art designed to increase the chi, or life energy. Pilates is a muscle- lengthening program developed in Germany in the 1920s...