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...hallmark is perhaps his extreme sensitivity to time and space, from the portrayal of the city street to the interiors of the bedroom. The Skywalk Is Gone, a short film shown at the same screening, centers around the disappearance of a skywalk in a busy corner of Taipei and the hiatus in human relationships which it creates. Like in Goodbye, there are many shots of the chic female protagonist walking, only this time it is not the resonant corridors of the abandoned theatre but the clamorous streets and peopled landscape of the city...
...Taiwan would use the missiles if attacked. Yu called for a cold war-style "balance of terror" between the island and China. "If you fire 100 missiles at me, I should be able to fire 100 missiles at you, or at least 50," he told legislators. "If you attack Taipei and Kaohsiung, I will attack Shanghai." Beijing called Yu's comments "a serious provocation and clamoring for war." Washington rebuked both sides, saying "we oppose moves by either side that would increase tensions across the Taiwan Strait...
...Rude, vile pigs! Do you know what that means? Rude, vile pigs! That's what all of you are!" ELTON JOHN, rock star, upon being greeted by pushy photographers and TV crews when he arrived in Taipei...
...Rude, vile pigs! Do you know what that means? Rude, vile pigs! That's what all of you are!" ELTON JOHN, British pop star, on being greeted by pushy photographers and TV crews when he arrived in Taipei...
CHARGED. DONALD KEYSER, 61, former top-level State Department official; with concealing from his superiors that he took a four-day trip to Taiwan last September, in violation of security protocol; in Alexandria, Va. He admitted to meeting with a Taiwanese intelligence officer but said he had flown to Taipei only "for sightseeing purposes...