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...first glance, they seem from another world, these harbingers of a new Chinese-American cinema. With their glimpses of swirling silks, their rapid clatter of languages, their arranged marriages, fatal renunciations, invocations of ghosts and ancestors, aphorisms straight out of a fortune cookie from one of the better Chinese restaurants, The Joy Luck Club and The Wedding Banquet look beautifully alien. But this is all a trick, to entice you with a vision of novelty. The Western viewer shortly, delightedly, discovers tales of universal savor and significance. Only the garnish is regional...
...love to hate. Whether you are just sitting down to dinner or anxiously waiting for your beloved to say, "I will," the phone pests always seem to call at exactly the wrong time. Often the despised intruder is not even human, but a recorded sales message delivered by a rapid-fire automatic dialing machine...
...cases in animals has almost doubled, from about 4,700 in 1988 to 8,645 last year. Raccoons (4,311 cases) eclipsed skunks (2,334) as the No. 1 carriers. Dr. Charles Rupprecht, chief of the rabies section at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), calls the rapid spread "one of the most intensive wildlife rabies outbreaks in history...
...purses of little old ladies, and I've had people take a swing at me," she says. While this incident had no tragic ending -- Staten survived the assault and is in stable condition -- Black is wary of what may happen the next time. "You can't deny rapid access to an emergency room," she notes. "But nurses are terrified...
Gardini's upbringing led him to agricultural college; afterward he joined the firm of Ravenna grain dealer Serafino Ferruzzi. His charm, ambition and business flair brought him rapid promotion -- as well as marriage in 1957 to the boss's eldest daughter, Idina, which guaranteed that he would inherit company leadership from Ferruzzi, who died...