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CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER The knives are out at the palace, and Gong Li is staring daggers. Chinese cinema's haughtiest diva plays a 10th century Empress who is having an affair with her stepson while, she suspects, her husband (Chow Yun Fat) is slowly poisoning her. That's just for appetizers in a menu of long-lost parents, eloping lovers and the minor distraction of a civil war out in the grand courtyard...
...this resplendent salon are the ivy strewn walls that surround the Somerset’s garden and terrace, known as “the Bricks,” where members and their guests can relax and sip single malt scotch in utter tranquility. The Somerset has traditionally been the haughtiest and most prestigious of clubs, one in which social pedigree is, ehem, de rigueur...
Drama is Hollywood reduced to a small screen or made more cheaply to car-screeching formula, unless those televised comic strips-sitcoms-can be called an invention. Only lately has news begun overhauling its old way of presenting stories. Perhaps this is one reason why CBS, best and haughtiest of the news organizations, has gone to its sports division to find the new head of CBS News, Van Gordon Sauter, 46. CBS and NBC were the first to sneer 4½ years ago, when ABC chose its sports wonder Roone Arledge to head both ABC News and Sports. Arledge sent...
Polish Jokes. The ordinary East German does not much like the Russians, and he makes his feelings known in any way that will not land him in jail. Hotel clerks save their haughtiest look for Russian travel groups. Even the B-girls are unfriendly. "We always recognize a Russian by his pointed shoes," says a miniskirted blonde at Dresden's Café Prag. "We refuse, of course." Not that the East Germans think much kindlier of their other East European neighbors. They have their own Polish jokes...
Group art, especially the work of primitive societies, assumes the character of communal art, a sharing of human existences. Individual art, like the works of Florence at its haughtiest, can hail the piece of work that is a man or, in less boastful moments can dramatize to beings of a fragmented century the brutal and atavistic parts of our existence, witness "Guernica...