Word: mandarin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lovely that, in an age when pop culture dances with the dunces, someone has the mandarin urge to arouse and test his audience. Lovelier still when, as in The Pillow Book, text and texture meet so exquisitely. Sex is a visual art, Greenaway says, and writing is a matter of life and death...
...stories, images within images, like a Chinese puzzle box," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "The director also insists that his actors throw themselves, soul and especially body, into his complex revenge scenarios. It's lovely that, in an age when pop culture dances with the dunces, someone has the mandarin urge to arouse and test his audience. Lovelier still when, as in The Pillow Book, text and texture meet so exquisitely. Sex is a visual art, Greenaway says, and writing is a matter of life and death...
...stories, images within images, like a Chinese puzzle box," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "The director also insists that his actors throw themselves, soul and especially body, into his complex revenge scenarios. It's lovely that, in an age when pop culture dances with the dunces, someone has the mandarin urge to arouse and test his audience. Lovelier still when, as in The Pillow Book, text and texture meet so exquisitely. Sex is a visual art, Greenaway says, and writing is a matter of life and death...
...read how easy it is to get private information about people from the Internet [TECHNOLOGY, June 2]. I know dozens of people, myself included, who have struggled through the maze of the Web for endless hours and have rarely come up with even harmless information (i.e., news in Mandarin or airline-ticket prices to L.A.). Thanks to your step-by-step instructive article on how to get information, however, that should all change...at least for would-be snoopers! JANA MCBURNEY-LIN Singapore...
...solstice, a few moviegoers are already sick of summer. There's got to be something better than this: brain food, not eye candy. Perhaps some ambition, boldness, a little variety for our palette. To the rescue comes a quartet of foreign-language films--remember them?--in French and Farsi, Mandarin and Japanese. These movies will be in only a few dozen U.S. theaters. But seeing them could convince you that summer really is a season of fullness...