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...after Roboraptors or the Star Wars Darth Vader Voice Changer Mask, top toys in the Deloitte survey. Apple's new iPod nano is a favorite, too. Sudoku books continue their spectacular run and, for a truly harmonious holiday season, a new boxed set of Mozart's collected works by Brilliant Classics is retailing for less than $118. The 170-CD set is the best seller on Amazon.com in France, where it's beating Madonna's latest album...
...early 1950s, LIU BINYAN was a tall, eloquent young man deeply devoted to the ideals of socialism and set for a brilliant career in the People's Republic of China. When he was purged from the Communist Party in 1957 for writing about corruption and banished to a poor mountain village, he suddenly found that there were "two diametrically opposed kinds of truth" in China. The "longings of the peasants" formed one kind, the "policies of the higher-ups" another. The rest of Liu's life?his sufferings as well as his remarkable achievements?followed from his choice to side...
...have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis." HAROLD PINTER, British playwright, in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature...
Director Jess R. Burkle ’06 successfully conveys the strange ethereal appeal of “rhinoceritis” with deceptively uncomplicated set-ups. In a brilliant artistic decision, no attempt is made to create the ungainly rhinoceros costumes that have weakened past renditions; instead, each newly transformed villager simply opens a red umbrella. It is a quiet, visually appealing, and deeply unsettling representation of the villagers’ transformations...
...would try to be charming; I would fail each time. But she was a person of tremendous forgiveness—I’m still grateful to her for this—and she would smile and maybe laugh and she would say something that would strike me as brilliant. I would cling to this encounter throughout the day like a sparrow to a bright-colored bit of string, and at night I would add it to my modest little nest of unfounded hope. The whole thing ran its course, and like most youthful delusions it faded away gently with...