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...filtering through the mist of secrecy in which he is cloaked, reliable reports indicate that the enfeebled Deng is nearing the end of his life. He can no longer write, is almost blind and has become so hard of hearing and slurred of speech, it is said, that two of his three daughters are the only people who can interpret his words to the public. Last week his youngest daughter, Xiao Rong, conceded to the New York Times that her father's health is declining "day by day." Given that she serves as Deng's personal secretary and is traveling...
...that the scenic channel was carved in stone by the goddess Yao Ji as a way of diverting the river around the petrified remains of a dozen dragons she had slain for harassing the peasants. Over the centuries painters and poets have idealized the canyons as a mist-shrouded wilderness. While that may have once been true, the region lost much of its majesty in modern times, as demolition teams blasted rocky obstructions from the river's course, and the bucolic villages on its banks gave way to grim new factory towns...
...movie moral that wounded creatures are powerful ones, with powerful lessons to teach those who would presume to educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted, who has directed vigorous woodland women before (Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter, Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist), focuses on the weird wonder of Foster. Of course her portrayal is a stunt; of course the viewer is aware of the distance between the actress and her role. Yet she undercuts cliche with a fearless, fierce, beautifully attuned performance...
Lake is mostly the story of John Wade, a boyish, idealistic politician who retreats to a cottage in the Minnesota woods to recover after a humiliating election defeat. There, with Kathy, his longtime wife and college sweetheart, he looks into the mist over the lake and plays hide-and-seek with his unwanted memories. For Wade is not only an earnest man of principles, he is also a spooked vet who wakes up yelling in his sleep recalling the horrors he was part of -- and party to -- in Vietnam. Kathy is guilty of her own betrayals, and the wary husband...
...survival of Rwanda's community of rare mountain gorillas -- made famous by Dian Fossey, whose story inspired the movie "Gorillas in the Mist" -- is threatened by starving civilians who are killing them for "bush meat," the World Society for the Protection of Animals warned today...