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...shek seemed to be everywhere: speaking at Madison Square Garden; traveling to San Francisco; talking on the radio. In an address to Congress, she was what one commentator called "the personification of free China." Slim and graceful, clad in a black cheongsam, she wooed, wowed and chastised her spellbound listeners with a blend of compliments, barbs and pungent assertions. "We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously, but to risk it gloriously," she said. After she sat down, a Congressman confessed, "I never saw anything like it. Madame Chiang...
...West, seemed to be everywhere: speaking at Madison Square Garden, traveling to San Francisco, talking on the radio. In an address to Congress, she was what one commentator called "the personification of free China." Slim and graceful, clad in a black cheongsam, she wooed, wowed and chastised her spellbound listeners with a blend of compliments, barbs and pungent assertions. "We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously but to risk it gloriously," she said. After she sat down, a Congressman confessed, "I never saw anything like it. Madame Chiang...
...FILM | Spellbound...
...charming, suspenseful, fascinating, and hilarious documentary, Spellbound follows eight young word-fanatics as they train their way to the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Half sociology study, half edge-of-your-seat thriller, this terrific film presents a broad cross-section of modern America, introducing the viewer to a daughter of Mexican illegal immigrants and an Indian-American boy whose father has paid for hundreds of his countrymen in India to pray 24 hours a day for his son’s success. The last half, showing the actual competition, is a nail-biter, but the inherent charm present...
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