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...Feelies leave the heavy messages at home. "We are not political," says Mercer. "If anything, we are spiritual." It must be a restless spirit just now, and a little bit anxious as well. Percussionist Dave Weckerman, 38, also free-lances in a Feelies spur group called Yung Wu and holds down a part-time job as a shipping clerk. Million, the only married band member, has a seven- year-old son and works behind the register at northern New Jersey's only rent- a-laser-disk store. Drummer Stan Demeski, 28, moved out of his mother's home only this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Dawn of the Feelies | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...Contrary to the views of conservative elements within the party leadership, educators see China's sexual reawakening not so much a threat to public morality as a sign of progress. "If people are not hedonistic to a degree, as well as capitalistic, the society cannot be modernized," says Dr. Wu Minlun, a Hong Kong psychiatrist and advocate of sex education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Sexual Revolution Hits China | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...events awkwardly coincided with an official visit last week by Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Xuequian to Washington, where human rights violations in Tibet were already on the agenda. Wu told Secretary of State George Shultz that China had done much to make amends for damage suffered by Tibetans during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s. Monasteries seized in those years have been reopened, and $700,000 has been paid to the monks in compensation. Wu also noted that China and the U.S., which accepts China's claim to Tibet, "have a different conception of human rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tibet: Smash Everything! | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Shakespeare's play is ultimately a comedy, and the cast clearly presents it as such. Harvard sophomore Lucian Wu, as the foppish Frenchman, Dr. Caius, and Frank Timmerman, as the effeminate Slender, bring much-needed comic relief to the bathetic love scenes between Page's daughter Anne (Joanne Lessner) and Fenton (Kenneth Goodwin). Slender and Caius, vain suitors for Anne's heart, hide in the foliage when the two lovers arrive on the scene. Timmeran with his engaging bug-eyed innocence lisps his way through his performance, while Wu resorts to more sword-flinging bravura...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Merry Anniversary | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...Dreier, Andrew R. Elby, Jonathan L. Feng, Raymond S. Flournoy, Steven J. Frucht, Handel, Daniel L. Hurewitz, Steven Joffe, Joshua M. Kosowsky, Joshua Lee, Mark H. Levine, William G. Malley, Kevin P. Moriarty, Robert R. Noyer, Andrew J. Powell, Gary D. Rowe, Wagner, Jonathan S. Weissman, and Samuel S. Wu...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Inductees Announced | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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