Word: wu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese are obsessed by numbers. They are quick to buttonhole visitors and point out that Shanghai's skyline is populated by 15% of the world's construction cranes, or that Beijingers can buy a Big Mac at one of 42 McDonald's restaurants. Last week WU JICHUAN, who runs China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, unwrapped a whopper: the nation has 100 million phone lines, second only to the U.S. Just two years ago, officials said they hoped to hit 50 million phone lines by the year 2000. Now they're expecting to surpass the U.S.'s 160 million...
...Kong, perhaps the territory's most valuable and reliable asset, will not change and won't lose their unique energy, courage and vision for a bright tomorrow. And in the eyes of many, this might be enough to assure Hong Kong's future success. In the city of Lo Wu, at the border with China, the ultramodern train station is packed with masses of Chinese from the territory going to the mainland for a weekend or a short business trip. Their faces, their radiant smiles and spontaneous enthusiasm suggest the conclusion that maybe, for the extraordinary people of Hong Kong...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: FBI agent Jerry Campane told the Senate campaign finance panel that Charlie Trie, a restaurant owner in Arkansas, had dipped into a $905,000 payment from a business partner in Asia known as Mr. Wu to reimburse himself for a $220,000 donation he made to the DNC, and to pay back other associates who made similar contributions. Since the money originated from a foreign source and disguised the name of the real contributor, the contributions may have been illegal. Did the money come from the Chinese government? Hard to say, since Trie and his partner have refused...
...birthday present each year, little Nagiko's father would write a sensuous sentiment, in elegant Japanese calligraphy, on the child's face. Twenty years later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. Finally, she will be not the paper but the pen--an artist writing love notes in the medium of flesh...
...Greenaway film is a complex word-and-picture game--of stories within stories, images within images, like a Chinese puzzle box. The director also insists that his actors throw themselves, soul and especially body, into his complex revenge scenarios. Wu is a fine, supple tabula rasa; McGregor (Trainspotting) shows again that he is one of the boldest, most charming young actors...