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...when people “blend your person and your work” in their comments, Fernandez said, then criticism ceases to be constructive...
...modernize China and make it a world power--in 1978, a move that made him POY. In 1985 TIME named him again, saying his reforms had "changed the daily lives of his nation's citizens to a greater extent than any other world leader." Indeed, wrote TIME, his blend of state ownership and private property, of central planning and competitive markets, of political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom, holds "promise for changing the course of history...
...emotional forces of a film are so neatly measured out. But formalism is a beginning, not an end, for Almodovar. For his sensibility is shaped by Spanish Surrealism and giddily influenced by his love for the sober-delirious improbabilities of old-fashioned American movie genres. He offers this rich blend, he says, "in the most natural presentation possible: dreams without any change in lighting." In short, his is a cinema wildly alive to unsettling juxtapositions and strange coincidences, at once true to the banalities of life as we generally see them yet even truer to the more fantastic lives...
...With its complex blend of genres, the play is risky. But Gao's equanimity runs deep. Friends speak of his Zen-like detachment, what his French translator Noel Dutrait calls his "unshakable faith" in himself. "He can be in the center, yet not of the center," observes one of his English translators, Prof. Gilbert Fong. "This is what he tries to capture in his writing." For Gao, detachment is just another word for freedom, the freedom to live and to write what he described in his Nobel acceptance speech as "cold literature," art that "refuses to be strangled by society...
...four of the stove burners at the same time. It is the holiday richest with ritual. And carols epitomize Christmas ritual: I love them not for the way they sound but for the way they are sung in the Rooster Church in December, when everyone’s voices blend to share the “Coventry Carol” as it has been shared since the sixteenth century...