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Three days later, Zhou went into hiding after he learned that the innovative Stone Corp., the computer firm he had worked for as a policy planner, had become the target of a witch-hunt. Its president, Wan Runnan, now a leading dissident in exile in Paris, had been close to then party chief Zhao Ziyang and an ardent supporter of the students...
...next day, Harvard dropped a 6-4 decision to the Sox as Boston's farmhands snuffed out a Crimson rally in the ninth. Konjoyan and Wan Zarate singled to start the inning, and Del Vecchio knocked in Konjoyan with a base hit. With runners on the corners, Shire flew out to center deep enough to score Zarate to cut the Bosox lead to two runs. But Tim Hurley and Allen both flied out to end the game...
...VERSUS THE VOLCANO. In this wan bit of whimsy from Moonstruck writer John Patrick Shanley, Tom Hanks plays a young man who believes he is dying and so agrees to jump into a live volcano. The picture makes no more sense than its synopsis, though Meg Ryan beguiles in three different roles...
Daily Life in the Forbidden City by Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing and Lu Yanzhen (Viking; $75). As the Son of Heaven moved through his palaces, the Hall of Luminous Benevolence, the Gate of Divine Prowess, there was everywhere beauty to behold. The Palace Museum in Beijing has assembled a sumptuous record of this quotidian splendor...
Meet Me in St. Louis lacks the main asset of the 1944 film, Judy Garland, while shouldering its burden, the wan, uneventful plot. It seeks not only happy endings but also happy beginnings, happy middles, happy everything in between. Yet its charms include six songs from the film plus eleven more from the same team, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane; a Disneyesque confection of Victorian houses; ice skating on a real-looking pond; a trolley that moves; and a lighted-up 1904 World's Fair...