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...realism, curated and introduced by Martin Scorsese. (One disappointment: in the recent month dedicated by Sophia Loren, only five of the 23 films were Italian.) A season on Asian faces in Hollywood movies veered eastward for two extremely rare Chinese silent films starring Shanghai's original tragic movie diva Ruan Lingyu...
...third century A.D., the Chinese scholar and musician Ruan Ji began a 60-day drinking binge. Ji got smashed every day to avoid serving in a corrupt government, and wrote music like “Wine Madness,” which in some versions has a final coda labeled “The immortal exhales his wine.” Though drinking served as a leitmotif during last week’s residency of the Silk Road Project—founded and directed by Yo-Yo Ma ’76—each piece of music was far more...
...TRUCKING MAGNATE JOHN RUAN...
...John Ruan is a big man in a small state. And since that state is Iowa, the location of the nation's first presidential caucuses, perennial candidate Dole went to extraordinary lengths to help Ruan, who owns a multimillion-dollar trucking company. In return Ruan has held fund raisers in Des Moines, and is considered an important reason Dole has won the Iowa caucuses twice. But those wins came at a price: $8.5 million. That's how much Dole saved Ruan in taxes by retaining for Ruan the 10% investment tax credit that was taken away from virtually everybody else...
...days leading up to the crisis, he reportedly abstained from a crucial vote when the party was paralyzed over how to act on the student protests. That demonstration of neutrality may have made him acceptable as a compromise leader to all sides. "He is a very shrewd man," says Ruan. "He was elevated to the Politburo by Hu Yaobang. But when Hu was ousted, Qiao acted against his former mentor and sided with Deng...