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...reconsidered on a Tuesday in mid-May when I walked out of Widener into the space framed by two large columns, the Yard spread before me, the worn marble steps littered with photographers--and then, nearly twenty-four hours later, traced an oddly familiar descent from the colonnade at the Acropolis, prose in hand, with the magnificent view of Athens (and of flocks of photographers) stretching from marble's edge to the shore...
...year ago it was enough that Chen was Taiwan's pioneering non-Kuo-mintang (KMT) President, the first head of state not affiliated with Chiang Kai-shek's founding party. A year into his term, Chen's novelty as an opposition figure has worn off. He is mainstream now, occupying the political center, and has to present himself more as what he is than what he is not. Chen has to give people something to believe in, show the taxi drivers in Kaohsiung and the betel nut salesgirls in Chiayi what he is about. He must now explain, vividly, what...
...hilarious business of Shrek, a delightful new animated feature based on the William Steig book, to subvert all the well-worn expectations of its genre--to make us see, as the ogre does, how tiresome fairy-tale creatures and conventions have become. At the same time, Shrek suggests some smart, anachronistic spins for the collective unconscious...
...recent Friday night, a glassy-eyed senior citizen treats the club to a warb-ling, sick-dog rendition of John Lennon's Imagine. Beside him a young blond girl wearing a ruffly white dress she might have worn to her prom smiles happily, her hands poised, ready to clap when her elderly companion finishes his song. At another table a man dressed in a white V-neck sweater and cream-colored golf pants is flanked by two big-boned Nordic women. In halting English, he regales them with tales of how much his hotel accommodations cost on a recent trip...
...million Amount the Defense Department will still pay for the Chinese berets that will no longer be worn by U.S. troops because of strained relations with China...