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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When Tsui Hark last year became the first Chinese director to serve on the Cannes Film Festival jury, some feared the experience might corrupt him. Would he start making his movies with a Gallic flair, replacing cut-and-slash kung fu with fashionable explorations of anomie? Would the Riviera sunlight cook his brain until he was convinced that he must forsake epic gangster cinema for experiments in narrative impenetrability? Would Hong Kong's action godfather, the man who introduced the world to John Woo and Jet Li, lose his Hong Kongness...
...bias and been accused of partisanship. PBS has had a string of culture-war flare-ups, including a spat over an episode of the kids' program Postcards from Buster that featured two lesbian moms. Prominent Democrats last week called for Tomlinson's resignation, while some House Republicans tried to slash the CPB's funding by $100 million...
...stock surge was in part the product of encouraging economic signs: falling interest rates, low inflation, sagging oil prices, a declining dollar that will help reduce the U.S. trade deficit, and enactment of the Gramm-Rudman law to slash the federal budget deficit. The market was also driven by merger fever, as opportunistic investors pushed up the prices of companies thought to be takeover targets...
...potential, or so it seemed for a while, of producing the most sweeping arms control agreement in the history of the nuclear age. The most dramatic proposal was to slash in half the long-range nuclear missiles in the arsenals of the superpowers and eventually eliminate them altogether. Until a half-hour before the meeting broke up on Sunday evening, virtually all the pieces seemed to be in place. Yet in the end, the Iceland summit broke down over a single word: laboratory...
...Farkes said. “It’s a short season, and to start hitting at the end, [it’s what] I was kind of telling myself to kind of get through the tough times all season. This was what I was hoping-slash-expecting to happen...