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...Chronicle follows the same narrative and historical arc as To Live. Xu Sanguan is a factory worker who argues with his wife, yells at his kids and curses like, well, a Chinese factory worker. But Xu manages to stay human in an increasingly inhuman world. The "blood merchant" of the title, he is willing to sell his plasma to keep his family fed and together?an eerily prescient scenario that evokes the recent real-life traumas in Henan province, where hundreds of thousands of peasants may have contracted HIV by selling their blood. Though Chronicle is at heart more hopeful...
...want the film to arc from prohibition to blessing,” he says. “What comes between are the stories, and the stories make up that dash...
Throughout religious history, getting spoken to by God has not been a sign of fun times ahead. Abraham had to agree to kill his son. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. On CBS's Joan of Arcadia (Fridays, 8 p.m. E.T.), God appears to a teenage girl and commands her ... to take AP chemistry...
...beautifully designed play during a penalty corner, McDavitt unassumingly lined up to the right of the circle as B.U. focused its attention to the top of the arc. But senior forward Mina Pell delivered the corner directly to McDavitt, who dribbled up and found the left side of the net open, leaving the Terriers (8-10) dumbfounded...
...flouncy sleeves. Allen's bio has a few points of interest. Despite being weapons-grade gay, he married Liza Minnelli. Despite coming from the Australian outback, he headlined in Vegas, won an Oscar and sold out Radio City Music Hall. But that's not the kind of story arc that would seem fit for a multiplex hero. Recent events have shown that people welcome all sorts of extracurricular ambitions in action stars, but performing 20 songs onstage in loud shirts while dancing may not be one of them...