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...want of an actual unspoiled Chinese forest.) As Zhang Ziyi matures, some might say her director is regressing. Perhaps the red lantern won't be raised again, and maybe China's aspiring serious moviemakers will need to find a new hero. To those who complain that the outlaw master has joined the mainstream: just lighten up. Zhang Yimou can, as Daggers proves, and the result is plenty of fun to watch...
...President Arafat is the master of ... the statement with the yo-yo string on it. It gets pulled back." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, expressing skepticism over the Palestinian leader's offer to share more power with Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei...
...best thing about Maria Full of Grace. Maria's circumstances may keep changing, but she accepts them and the consequences of her desperate responses to them; she makes no special pleas for herself; she just keeps moving ahead, never entirely sure where she is going. Vulnerable, always obliged to master new difficulties, she elicits our sympathy--even finally our love--without ever suing for it. --By Richard Schickel
DIED. ILLINOIS JACQUET, 81, innovative tenor saxophonist and bandleader; of a heart attack; in New York City. At 19, playing with Lionel Hampton's band, he bleated out an 80-sec. solo on Flying Home that became legendary. He was a master of the style known as screeching and was equally adept at slow ballads. In addition to playing with most of the jazz giants of his era, he was invited by President Bill Clinton to perform a duet on the White House lawn at his first Inauguration...
...heavy yoke of one King George,” Byrd said. “We must not acquiesce to the dictates of another. As Brutus said to Cicero when Cicero was attempting to curry special favor of Antony, ‘Our ancestors would have scorned even a gentle master...