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...first six games were a disaster. He averaged fewer than 4 points and was frequently out of position on defense. He made highlight films the world over when a crossover dribble by Phoenix Suns guard Stephon Marbury fooled him so badly that he crumpled to the floor like a shot giraffe. Then in a November game against the Lakers, Yao came alive. He hit all nine of his shots, scored 20 points and grabbed six rebounds. Shaquille O'Neal, with an injured toe, missed Yao's coming out, but Shaq was back by the time the Rockets and Lakers squared...
ELEMENTS. Dance to raucous drum & bass in close quarters, courtesy of guest DJs sCi and Aria. Optionally, mingle with the confused restaurant patrons as a bonus. Thursday, Feb. 13 at 10 p.m. Tickets $3-$5; free before 10 p.m. The Phoenix Landing, 512 Massachusetts...
...melancholy of the novel. Both versions evoke a wistful longing for the irretrievable drama of youth. Teenage pals Ma (Liu Ye) and Luo (Chen Kun), inheritors of the bourgeois crimes of their doctor parents, are sent for re-education to the primitive if not remarkably picturesque mountain village of Phoenix on the Sky. The work is tough and the conditions harsh. Even worse, all books are banned?except little red ones. Western music is equally verboten as Ma, the film's violin-playing narrator, discovers when the village chief threatens to punish him for playing a Mozart tune. Quick-witted...
...falls into the well-worn treads of a traditional coming-of-age tale. It doesn't help that Dai seems to forget that the boys are living in the middle of the Cultural Revolution; with its postcard-perfect vistas and the endless free time the trio enjoys, life in Phoenix on the Sky seems less re-education camp than Mao's Outward Bound. But Seamstress, which earned a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign-language film, achieves moments of quiet beauty as well. Ma sheds confused tears at the mention of Balzac's Chinese translator, punished as a reactionary like...
...hardly have elicited such joyful hysteria as the news that the new Harry Potter book is finally on the way. Within 24 hours of J.K. ROWLING'S announcement that the fifth installment of the series will arrive in bookstores on June 21, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hit No. 1 on Amazon.com in the U.S. and Britain, and the stock of Scholastic, Potter's U.S. publisher, rose $2.99. Since the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was published in 2000, Potter fans have been frothing for Volume V. Such daunting pressure...