Word: woos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prepared to write out a check to Harvard, I learned that not everybody is asked to make merely a symbolic donation. A few select students (i.e. students from wealthy families) are asked to pay more. In fact, the Senior Gift has a separate Special Gifts committee established just to woo these "special" students...
...from the cruelty of the era the movie depicts. There is an extraordinarily disturbing scene where the prodigiously endowed and sadistic Kuen rapes and beats his wife. Some of the sex scenes are so over the top that one begins to think that this is an erotic John Woo film. To be sure, some of the situations are so implausible that they really function on a comic level, but as a whole, the violence and brutality are tremendously offputting...
...comedy Combination Platter, directed by Chinese-American filmmaker Tony Chan; and The Wedding Banquet, a comedy directed by Ang Lee, who moved to the U.S. from Taiwan. Asian-style kickboxing movies have found an eager audience in the U.S. Recently one of Hong Kong's best filmmakers, John Woo, relocated to Los Angeles to direct the action movie Hard Target (which stars Belgian-born martial-arts hero Jean-Claude Van Damme...
Like a slowly developing photo, however, the outlines of a clearer identity are beginning to emerge. So strong is the presence of Asian Americans on the West Coast that politics can no longer afford to overlook them. Michael Woo, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for mayor of Los Angeles this year, demonstrated the fund-raising resources of prospering Asians by drumming up campaign contributions across the country. While Woo's defeat was a blow to morale, Asians can boast three members of Congress from California: U.S. Representatives Robert Matsui from Sacramento, Norman Mineta from San Jose and Jay Kim from Diamond...
...campaign songs go, these lyrics would be, to say the least, original: "Everything has been confused and intertwined." "In our house there are remains from the rotten truth." Nevertheless, Oleg Gazmanov, 42, hopes to woo Russian voters with his soulful music. The hip-swiveling pop star is running for parliament next month on the Russian Democratic Reform Movement ticket and believes his sexy image and chart-topping hits will attract "ordinary people" who otherwise might not vote. "I sing in order to unite people," he says. "I see it as my civic duty to be a candidate...