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...remote northern province, the village chief (Lei Lao Sheng) has lost his temper and kicked a man (Liu Pei Qi) where it hurts. But Qiu Ju (Gong Li), the man's wife, is hurt mainly in the pride, and she resolves to get satisfaction for this slur. The local public-security bureau agent, Mr. Li (Ge Zhi Jun), a reasonable politician in a hopeless situation, tells the chief to pay Qiu Ju and her husband 200 yuan in reparation. When she comes to the chief for the payment, he strews 20 10-yuan notes on the ground...
...most clearly indicates the confusion that the program notes try to mask as a sophisticated eclecticism. The deconstructionist hodgepodge of arched and beams is neither especially effective nor lovely to look at. Furthermore, the disquietingly oblique references to "the architecture of I.M. Pei, the collections at the Louvre, two thousand years of Western religious tradition, Ptolomy's [sic] astrological maps, the sculpture of Noguchi..." disperse the attention and cannot make up for the producers' failure to face the opera and its performance tradition, making an informed (never mind inspired) reading...
...Pei continued with his analysis of architecture and said it is important to utilize the designs indigenous to the culture or environment. He said he modeled the Center for atmospheric Research in Boulder, Co after the Indian pueblos...
...Pei graduated from the Design School in 1945 and held a GSD assistant professorship for three years, from...
...Pei hasn't tried to make himself a celebrity like other architects," said Michael Baenen, a member of a local architectural firm. "His personal explanations make it much more special...