Word: wen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Snipes stars as Max Carlyle, a commercial director living in Los Angeles with his over-sexed wife Mimi (Ming-Na Wen) and two children. During a business trip to New York, he visits his best friend Charlie (Robert Downey Jr.), a performance artist stricken with AIDS, gets separated from his production team and somehow ends up stranded in the city with Karen (Nastassja Kinski), a beautiful rocket scientist (you heard me). After going to a Beethoven concert, flirting shamelessly at a jazz club and escaping a nearly fatal mugging, Karen and Max, surprise, surprise, end up in bed together. Snipes...
...frame: everything comes from the Chinese imperial collections as they developed over the centuries; thus what we see is the slowly changing profile of the highest court taste. And the third is that the museum's 650-page tome of a catalog, prepared under the supervision of Wen C. Fong, the Met's curator of Chinese art, is probably the best introduction to its subject in print...
...demand to choose their own leaders through a similar election or a plebiscite on China's communist system. The only thing the U.S. should do now is to safeguard the democratization of Taiwan. Sooner or later, the desire for more political freedom will prevail in mainland China. JENNIFER WEN Sugar Land, Texas...
Katherine T. Wen '99 subscribes to a method more traditional and accessible than Doom and prescription medication...
Most hot political issues, in fact, are left to filmmakers inside China. Farewell My Concubine, Zhang's To Live, Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite, Gu Rong's Unwelcome Lady and Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun have boldly dramatized the fratricidal madness of the Cultural Revolution. The directors have paid for their bravery, finding their work censored or themselves unemployed. Gu submitted his film eight harrowing times before it was approved. Jiang tried distracting the on-the-set censor by casting him in Heat of the Sun. But he still had to fight for over...