Word: shan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SHAN-an-than...
...come. Not long ago he was at work on Chapter 3 of the untitled 20th novel, and he remarked, rather direly, "I have to last." Then he reflected that although the new novel in progress was supposed to bring Aubrey full circle, "I'm not sure whether I shan't take him a bit beyond full circle, with one or two incidents at the very height of the Royal Navy's glory. I should like simply for my own amusement--and because I don't really see how I can bear easily to live without writing--and at least...
...strange and beguiling new breed of Disney animated feature. This is, in part, a war movie that understands loss, desolation, death. Power and discipline are the motifs here: bending your will and others', bending the system while working within it. The villain, a crazed, WWF-style hulkster named Shan-Yu, has no comic irony softening his brute trapezoidal lines. He's just an evil machine with vampire teeth. The Wall, the vast plains and hills, the Forbidden City itself, all cringe at his shadow...
...girl becomes a man. Mulan is the only child of a dutiful man tied to tradition. "I know my place," he tells his rebellious tomboy of a daughter. "It is time you learned yours." Her place, it turns out, is at the head of a ragtag platoon fighting Shan-Yu's Huns. This woman warrior will prove that the art of war is the smart of war, that one wins by cunning, not strength. And unlike most Disney heroines, she achieves her goal without much mentoring. As her sidekick, a spindly dragon named Mushu, proudly says...
...area is very large, beds do get scarce. As they have for thousands of years, crowds arise before dawn and head toward the peaks to await that magical moment when the sun rises from the sea of clouds and bathes the mountains in the radiant morning light. Huang Shan may not be exactly off the beaten path, but it is on a road well worth taking...