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...This was largely thanks to Wai, a pinwheel of compelling, eccentric movie ideas. In the '80s they had worked together at tvb, Hong Kong's highest-rated channel. (That's also where To meet his wife Paulina; they have been married for 23 years.) Wai made his directorial debut in 1995 with Peace Hotel, a Chow Yun-fat Eastern Western whose bold, dusky style seemed indebted equally to Woo, Sergio Leone and Wong...
...magnificence of the visible stars, astronomers know they are only the first shimmering veil in a cosmos vast beyond imagination. Armed with ever more powerful telescopes, these explorers of time and space have learned that the Milky Way is a huge, whirling pinwheel made of 100 billion or more stars; that tens of billions of other galaxies lie beyond its edges; and, most astonishing of all, that these galaxies are rushing headlong away from one another in the aftermath of an explosive cataclysm known as the Big Bang...
...Like a Pinwheel...
...like with a pinwheel," Breiling said. "When the engine fails, you shift it into neutral, then let the air keep run through the blades and keep it spinning...
...children's TV. Launched in 1979, the cable channel for children is now seen in 41 million homes, double the number of five years ago. Ratings, among the highest of all basic-cable services, are up 12% from last year. Along with its long-running show for preschoolers, Pinwheel, and a diet of cartoons and vintage reruns (Lassie, Dennis the Menace), the channel is steadily boosting its slate of original programming aimed at older youngsters. The most successful, Double Dare, has become a hit in syndication and has spawned several imitators. Nickelodeon's success with live-action children's fare...