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...Hong Kong movies, melodrama is never mellow, and Yuen is ever eager to place women in apalling jeopardy. DoDo Cheng gets kicked into barbed wire in the 1988 Tiger Cage. An even snazzier thriller, the 1989 In the Line of Duty 4, has plucky Cynthia Kahn battle a predator on the top of, on the side of and nearly under a speeding ambulance; later she takes on two thugs as the hero's mom hangs trussed from a 12-m rope next to an electrified fence...
Make Cosmo Village at 29 Margrath Road your first stop. Boasting a full bar and food menu in an atmosphere advertised as "Living Room Dining," the club's cushy couches, dim lighting and lounge chairs provide a mellow start for the evening. The DJ spins acid jazz and trance music, adding to the loungelike feel. The outdoor terrace upstairs is covered, and thanks to Bangalore's temperate climate, it is a breezy spot to people-watch and check out who's going out for the evening...
...should be, and that's the way Burns and Ward let it play out. Besides, with Armstrong playing Star Dust, or Young taking a solo, or Holiday singing Strange Fruit, the weight of history goes airborne. Jazz becomes, like the title of that Holiday classic, fine and mellow...
Always fine, anyway. But not invariably mellow, especially when it uses jazz with unapologetic heat to place black history at the vital center of American culture. Burns is relentless on the subject. He has spoken loudly and often about how racism is the thread that binds Jazz together with his previous large-scale work. He and his onscreen docents, like trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the critics Gary Giddins and Stanley Crouch, easily weave the story of the music not only together with history but also with conventional cultural tradition. Mozart and Shakespeare are cited as cultural touchstones for the giants...
...would take [the drugs] to mellow out a little--to help fall asleep at night," she said. "He thought he could manage it but before he knew it he was addicted...