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...Police Chief Jon Elder of Monterey Park, a Los Angeles suburb, testified that his city had had eight shootings in just the past few months among Asian gangs seeking "power and supremacy" in the town, which has a population that is 35% Asian. He described one victim of a ritual Triad punishment as having been slashed 200 times with a saber, deliberately left maimed but alive. A commission investigator claimed that a prosperous businessman in Manhattan's Chinatown, Edward Tse Chiu Chan, heads Triad criminal activities in New York. Chan has been subpoenaed to be interviewed by the commission...
...fictional world go round. Feathers deceives Mrs. Blore by exploiting her pillow talk in a sensational and highly profitable exposé of her husband. Derek Blore, the Right Honorable Member for Wheat-bridge East, got the ball rolling with furtive visits to a prostitute named Bernadette for his ritual whipping. Blore enjoyed fancying himself a naughty schoolboy, a harmless diversion were it not for the Soviet agents who recorded his extracurricular activities on film. Blackmail, conspiracy, espionage and scandal ensued...
Standing erect in an open-roofed Hongqi (Red Flag) limousine, Deng slowly rode along rows of troops, barking out in his heavy Sichuan accent the ritual greeting of the People's Liberation Army, "Hello, comrades!" followed by "You are working hard!" Back came the soldiers' enthusiastic responses, "Hello, Commander!" and "Serve the people...
Tugging the viewer through the streets and salons of la Belle Epoque Paris, Schlondorff offers less a version of Proust than a pictorial comment on him. For Proust the heavily draped and cluttered rooms, the constraints of clothing, language, manners and social ritual were familiar givens, matters for exquisitely observed, morally neutral description. For Schlondorff they are a malevolent astonishment. If there is a rational explanation for the obsessive, socially destructive love Charles Swann (Jeremy Irons) feels for the courtesan Odette de Crecy (Ornella Muti), it is to be found in these oppressive surroundings, where the very air breathes...
...sometimes knees with startled rush-hour pedestrians. The runners, most of them Western diplomats, called themselves the Hash House Harriers, after a group founded by three fleet-footed Britons in Kuala Lumpur some 50 years ago. Following a run of 2½ to five miles, participants of the Moscow ritual would engage in beer and banter at a Western embassy...