Word: shui
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Hong Kong enterprises avoid such bad vibrations by contracting with a feng shui master while their buildings are still in the planning stage. The ultramodern $650 million Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building, which the Bank of China tower would rival for dominance of the city's skyline, prudently had its blueprints vetted by feng shui experts. For a fee of several thousand dollars, a feng shui master advised moving a bank officer's door away from a nearby escalator to preserve the delicate yin-yang. Management, mindful of the feng shui faith of the Hong Kong Chinese...
...windfall--invested in a tobacco boutique--makes it even harder for her to behave virtuously, with all the beggars, parasites, and unscrupulous MBA types hanging around. To keep the capitalist hounds at bay, she employs a lesson from The Importance of Being Earnest, disguising herself as her hardhearted cousin Shui Ta and executing all of the unpleasant duties of a businessman in his name...
...other hand, there are limits. Andreassi goes over the top and out the door playing the caddish pilot Yang Sun. When Brecht spoke of emotionally "distancing" the audience from the actors, he was thinking in terms of yards, not light-years. Though Shipley's male alter-ego Shui Ta is an outstanding piece of physical acting (her face is concealed by a mask), she never quite makes you believe that Shen Te was either a prostitute or someone who Did It All For Love. Joseph Costa is fine as an unemployed hobo, but in the important supporting role...
...December 18 article entitled "Students Start Group to Limit Smoking Areas" incorrectly attributed a statement to Joyce Shui '87, the group's president. In relating a story about anonymous students who took action against smokers, Shui did not say that a senior tutor removed a 'no smoking' sign posted by a student in a house hallway...
...hoping that people will finally see theneed for policies" that limit smoking in publicplaces, said Joyce Shui '87 of Winthrop House,president of the Committee on Smoking Policy, agroup of Harvard students lobbying for strictersmoking regulations both at Harvard and in thecommunity at large