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...with everyone shouting at the top of their voices," she says. Her father, a textile merchant, died when she was a child; her widowed mother took over the family business before embarking on a successful career as an artist. (Chan's apartment is decorated with her mother's ink-brush paintings, and some of her mother's steely resolve seems to have rubbed off too.) Although she trained to become a social worker, Chan joined the government as an élite administrative cadet and enjoyed a 39-year career, marred only by a heavily criticized decision to separate a child...
...Seinfeld, George Carlin, and making as many sexual references as possible.Pinker’s lengthy and detailed categorization of “his little friends”—verbs—plods along, reading like a lecture in Linguistics 101. There are moving and changing verbs (brush, dribble, shake), verbs of having, knowing, and helping (bring, tell, fix), and verbs of acting, intending, and causing (march, come, kill). Verbs in their contexts determine a specific understanding of intention and situation, Pinker reminds us. After all, in English, “juice dripped from the peach?...
...recent films have tried to do just that: Rang De Basanti made a realistic portrayal of disaffected Delhi youth; Omkara was an adaptation of Othello; and Khosla ka Ghosla was a realistic portrayal of a Delhi family's brush with unscrupulous estate agents...
...Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen) have fun unmanning on their way to their own, more melancholy accommodation with reality. He also made an impression in a big movie, the political drama Advise and Consent, as a snaky, pre-Cheney Wyoming Senator, trying to blackmail a colleague for an early brush with homosexuality. In my innocent appreciation, I didn't think he was good at playing bad guys; I thought he was a bad guy. Maybe that's why I also assumed that his surname rhymed with lizard. (It's GrizZARD.) Later, catching up with his early work, I wondered...
...Tormented Lovers” and “Majnun with Gazelle,” portray Majnun as an archetype of religious piety. While these two paintings come from different time periods, Majnun appears gaunt and modest throughout, symbolizing his unearthliness and piety.With its bold colors and broad brush strokes, the 18th-century painting “Tormented Lovers” adopts the artistic style of its contemporaries, but maintains an attention to detail and a religious interpretation consistent with older versions of the tale: Majnun’s imminent beheading suggests both submission to God and “loss...