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They call him A-bian, a diminutive that can be traced to his boyhood in Hsi-chuang, a village 40 min. from Tainan, Taiwan's fourth largest city. This is the Taiwanese heartland, where kids still play marbles with pits of the dragon-eye fruit the way Chen did as a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. His family's red-roofed Taiwanese house consisted of four rooms built around a courtyard and an open hearth. They used chalk to write on the charcoal-stained walls how much they owed neighbors...
...writer Randall Wallace--looked unashamedly at Titanic and found its heated romance the perfect device to narrow the distance between a great historical happening and today's essentially antihistorical audience. Pearl Harbor thus spends a lot of time with Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett), boyhood pals who grow up to be hot pilots falling in love with the same woman, a Navy nurse named Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale). Rafe is first in line, but when he goes missing and is presumed dead in the Battle of Britain, Danny, who lands up at Pearl Harbor with Evelyn...
...storylines are overflowing in this contest—Martin Brodeur squares off against his boyhood idol, Patrick Roy, between the pipes; Colorado rallies without the help of superstar Peter Forsberg, still recovering from a ruptured spleen; Patrik Elias continues his emergence as the best left wing in the NHL on the Devils’ dominant “A” line; New Jersey seeks to become the third expansion team to win three Stanley Cups, joining the Edmonton and Long Island dynasties...
...They call him A-Bian, a diminutive that traces to his boyhood in Hsi-chuang, a village 40 minutes from Tainan, Taiwan's fourth-largest city. Renowned for its water chestnuts and mangoes, Hsi-chuang is still a rural community, despite being part of a township with a main road bristling with Toyota dealerships and Nikkomarts. The citizens make their living from the soil, and everyone knows the business of Mrs. Chang down the street, for example, and her son Li who just bought a new Nissan Cefiro. They speak Mandarin with a Taiwanese accent so thick that mainlanders...
...This first part, which Heuet calls "Combray," begins with the narrator being swept back to boyhood by the scent of a cookie. From there it reads episodically, dreamily recounting summertime events during a now-lost Edwardian age that includes bed-ridden aunts, earthy servants, looking at magic lantern shows, and fussing over the intricacies of propriety and social rank. Most crudely, it's about how the boy learns to appreciate beauty, and the way art can capture...