Word: boyness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...biggest crowds at the Block Orange, a 30-screen AMC theater in a sprawling Orange County shopping mall: a tiny, Spanish-language sleeper called Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna). A kind of Finding Nemo of border politics, Under the Same Moon follows a nine-year-old boy's travels from Mexico to the U.S. to reunite with his mother, an illegal immigrant who cleans houses in Los Angeles...
...Under the Same Moon has a character for almost everyone with some part in the Hispanic immigrant story. There's the boy, spunky Carlito (Adrian Alonso), separated from his parents by the border; the mother, Rosario; a disillusioned recent illegal played by telenovela star Kate del Castillo; Ferrera's second- or third- generation college student; a drifter Carlito meets picking fruit; a security guard with a green card and a shiny truck who courts Rosario; and the list goes on. "It speaks about life on both borders, why people feel the need to come over and what it's like...
...international best sellers but an out and out record for China. Lusby believes it will prove a commercial hit, and on the face of it Wolf Totem - rendered by renowned translator Howard Goldblatt - seems to be the kind of bildungsroman that many could relate to, telling of how boy becomes man, and touching on themes of environmental degradation and the conflict between tradition and modernity. Based on Jiang's experiences as a student volunteer living with nomadic Mongol herders in the 1960s and '70s, the 500-page tome is packed with descriptions of life on the steppes, ranging from...
...vaudeville, and she belted out her high Fs on sticky, splintered stages to halls full of cigarette smoke, but by 13 she'd been asked to perform for the Queen, and by 17 the family mortgage was in her name. By 19 she was on Broadway in The Boy Friend...
...feel it until you look in the mirror and all of a sudden people are starting to make comments that "boy, you don't look the same." I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented, as a kid growing up in Brooklyn. But it certainly felt strange...