Word: triad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With such a multimotivated triad producing a wealth of wonders, it is no surprise that medicine's great advance has been at once high-minded and profit-minded, selfless and selfish, inspired and pragmatic, sublime and boorish. With its emphasis on technology, the juggernaut of medical science has often strained and frayed the traditional personal bond between doctor and patient. It has presented medicine with a tangle of ethical dilemmas, bringing moral implications ever closer to daily life--and death. And, if that were not enough, it confronts society and government with the urgent problem of just...
...Shanghai Triad" is the work of Zhang Yimou, a so-called "fifth-generation" mainland Chinese director...
...demonstrators, and the situation is aggravated when Party officials refuse to have serious, face-to-face discussions with student leaders. It was this critical look at the Communist bureaucracy which led Chinese officials to withdraw their entry to the New York Film Festival--Ang Lee's Shanghai Triad--because Gate was being premeried there...
Because Chen's Temptress Moon, like Zhang's Triad, is set in Shanghai before the 1949 revolution, both directors can expect their new films to be seen in China. But what can these profligately gifted filmmakers do next? Perhaps emigrate to America, where they can join John Woo and Ang Lee in showing Hollywood how to blend film technique with personal fire. But to do so would be to renounce the people, problems and landscape they have devoted their careers to putting eloquently on film. Maybe they should move down to Hong Kong in 1997, and hope for the best...
...agenda's controversial triad...