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...before. On the rare occasion where Min tries to be innovative?such as a sex scene where the characters make love while reciting Maoist quotations?it just comes off seeming weird. If you like clichEd Chinese heroines and a hackneyed love story, all set against the now-too-familiar backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, this is a book for you. For me, I think I'll be reading Helen Fielding while getting my hair dyed at Le Salon...
...self-righteous politics - and we really should do a better job of separating the two. The RNC decided to present three photographs of "defining moments" in the Bush presidency. Obviously, as it defined so many things for most of us, the events of September 11th serve as a natural backdrop for one of those images. As much as the Democrats may want to forget, President Bush was the guy in charge of the country that day, and while his reaction to the attacks is no more or less real or valuable than that of any other American, he faced...
Interviewer Callie Crossley, producer of “Eyes on the Prize” and formerly ABC’s “20/20,” used the media’s decline as a backdrop against which to discuss Halberstam’s newest book, Firehouse...
...Bush to claim any high ground in the debate to protect America’s environmental future. But ironically, that is just what the president tried to do on Earth Day in the majestic rolling hills of upstate New York. With beautiful Saranac Lake cleverly used as a backdrop for his one-act play, Bush presented his “Clean Skies” program and pushed for conservation measures. The casual observer may have actually believed that the president was being serious when he talked of being committed to environmental issues...
However inevitable these right wing leaders view their successes as being, their victories have come against a backdrop of ever-increasing political apathy. Le Pen actually gained the same number of votes last week as he had done in the previous Presidential election; the much lower turnout simply made his percentage of the vote higher. With his demagogic pledge to be “socially to the left, economically to the right and nationally of France,” Le Pen did little more than convince more of his core supporters to turn out than the dry Jospin could attract...