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...wealthy monk. A woman's ashes in the trunk of a green Cadillac. Tales of hypnotism and drug taking at a wealthy physician's Malibu house. These are all elements in a bizarre story that has been unfolding in two Southern California courts. But the tale could serve as the plot of a Dashiell Hammett mystery novel...
...Chinese, Columbus has never been much of a hero. Three years ago, a Chinese historical journal denounced him as a "colonial pirate" for setting sail to pillage Asia. Now a Chinese scholar is claiming that Columbus may have been beaten to the New World by a 5th century Buddhist monk named Huishen...
Sinologists have long known of the monk's voyage to a mysterious land called Fusang. But its location has been a source of contention. So has the veracity of his tales, which were questioned even by his contemporaries. Still, some modern scholars say Fusang could have been real, perhaps Japan or even the Pacific Coast...
...Clarence, through there is more poetry in his long Dream than he has yet discovered. In the play's second-largest part, the Duke of Buckingham, David Huffman speaks admirably, with only an occasional violation of the meter; he is especially good in the scene with Richard as Mock-Monk. Tyrrel is not a large role, but Richard Seer brings sly subtlety to his inflections, looks and gait, and comes up with a real gem of a performance...
...always this way. While it is true that St. Simeon the Younger, the 6th century Syrian monk, perched on a stone pillar for 45 years, he did it not to claim a record but to elevate his soul. It was not until late in the 19th century that the notion of setting a record even occurred in sports literature. Only in the 20th has record-consciousness grown into a worldwide obsession. Scholars say that record keeping took hold mainly because of the scientific revolution's tendency to quantify and rank everything. The preoccupation with records, and the breaking thereof...