Word: romanticizes
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With things loosening up across China, it's instructive to recall the country's bastions of conservatism: the Communist Party foremost, the People's Liberation Army second. And then there's the Ping-Pong team. China's national table tennis squad is, of course, the world's finest: seven of...
It is a fantastically romantic notion, that thousands of young men and women could descend on a broken place and make it better, not decades from now but right away, hook up the high school Internet lab, send the Army engineers to repair the soccer field, teach the town council...
Or, perhaps, from his gentle fans. "I wanted to avoid [romantic] roles in my 20s," says Law, "because I didn't see much longevity in my career were I to take that path. I've not seen many films like that when guys come across as anything but shallow. It...
But now that he's hit 30, Law has finally taken on the type of role he seems genetically engineered to play--man in loooove. In Cold Mountain, Anthony Minghella's captivating Civil War epic from the Charles Frazier book, Law embodies the cinematic romantic hero down to the chest...
But even with a story that romantic, Law prefers to focus on the Homeric aspects of his character over the Titanic ones. "Inman was the first person I've played that I wanted to learn from and emulate," says Law. "I don't see me in him at all. A...