Word: shek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shanghai's Jiaotong University. In what was then China's naughtiest and most revolutionary-minded city, he discovered Benny Goodman and English films as well as communist politics. He joined the party at the age of 19, and once had to escape the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek by hiding in the trunk of his university president...
...further, into the bright, white bald-headed life of THX-1138 (1970), George Lucas' art-house sci-fi first feature, expanded from a student film he did at USC. Robert Duvall stars with Donald Pleasance (an easy bit of casting); look for cameos by Yul Brynner and Chiang Kai-Shek. Imagine a world of naked sadism, prescription drugs and robot policemen ? where the only erotic words are "no one is watching," and everyone really is. Imagine a bleak, bleached future in which "sexual perversion" (in this case, just regular sex) was a punishable crime...
...suppress the protests, the Nationalist Government leader, Chiang Kai-shek, imposed martial law on the island and sent troops from mainland China. As the troops moved from north to south on the island, they killed roughly 20,000 people indiscriminately...
...father, C.Y. Tung, flamboyant founder of the Orient Overseas shipping empire, cultivated close relations with Chiang Kai-shek after Chiang's Nationalists fled the mainland for Taiwan. C.Y.'s Hong Kong-registered fleet became a valuable icon of "free China's" economic dynamism. By the time C.Y. died in 1982, however, the company was on the verge of collapse, with 24 tankers on order at a time when a global oversupply of vessels had sent shipping rates plummeting. It fell to C.H., the eldest son, to announce in August 1985 that the company could not repay $2.68 billion in debt...
...scouring libraries that were throwing out back issues once they had transferred them to microfilm. He wrote letters, even sometimes sent the cover subject a gift as an enticement to sign. Among those who took the bait: Pablo Picasso, Joseph R. McCarthy, Herbert Hoover, Charles de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek, Andy Warhol, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio, Hopalong Cassidy (actor William Boyd) and all four Marx Brothers...