Word: silks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...health-care reform, full of charmed lawmkers and cheering crowds, helped boost her popularity higher than her husband's at times. Profiles charted the spiritual journey that inspired her social activism, the theologians she read, the ministers she admired. The New York Times Magazine dressed her in white silk and pearls and captioned her St. Hillary. Her staff loved the picture...
...Vault used to contain what we call XR material," said Kevin M. Tierney, the circulation supervisor. "Playboy, Yellow Silk [a journal of erotica], "The joy of Sex" and other assorted erotica. People think XR stands for X-rating, but I don't know what it stands...
...suitably accoutered, Mei Yang seduces the wife of Kuen (Kent Chung), a brutal silk merchant. Humiliated, Kuen leaves the town and becomes a gardener in the house where Yuk Heung languishes. Mei Yang is taken in by a pair of lesbian cousins with a penchant for flutes, food and S&M. Engaged in Blakean excess, Mei Yang is unaware that, perhaps to justify the "Zen" in the title, a day of reckoning awaits...
Technically, "Sex and Zen" is a accomplished and quite beautiful. Deep-hued silk billows extravagantly around the suitable pulchritudinous actors in just about every scene. Peter Ngor's camera creates a luscious surface of vivid colors and careful compositions that does full justice to Raymond Lee's sets and art direction. However, the film's visual beauty and the amusing acrobatics in some of the scenes fail to distract one from the cruelty of the era the movie depicts. There is an extraordinarily disturbing scene where the prodigiously endowed and sadistic Kuen rapes and beats his wife. Some...
...warm up to a character at once high strung and low key? It takes patience, a virtue that Mark Salzman demonstrated in Iron and Silk, a 1986 account of the author's experiences in China. Now Salzman brings East and West together in The Soloist (Random House; 184 pages; $19), a novel that counterpoints Occidental self-consciousness against Oriental ego transcendence. The dissonance is played out at a murder trial where Reinhart is a juror. There is no doubt that the young man in the dock has killed his Zen instructor. He says he beat him to death after hearing...