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Chaos has already come to China: its name is Guangzhou. This southern madhouse of a city lashes the nerves. Noise. Dirt. Pollution. Crowds. Blinding neon ricocheting off mirrored towers. Ceaseless tearing down and building up, with no visible organizing principle, just decrepit neighborhoods vanishing into gaping construction holes. It is Hong Kong without the veneer of British order, capitalism out of control. This is the world of money, money, money; a city that never sleeps, with dress shops open at midnight and vendors hawking at dawn. No wonder its presiding genius is Deng Xiaoping, smiling down from a giant mural...
...ceaseless wonder to me, especially after having spent my junior year abroad in Scotland, that a game can power a culture the way soccer--"football" to the rest of the United Nations--can, and does...
...past month of ceaseless advertising, vitriolic debates and endless hand shaking, we've learned more about the warts of the eight Republican presidential candidates than we ever wanted to know...
During that time, allied military planes conducting ceaseless sorties in the Balkans had been picking up beeper snippets that they thought could be coming from the pilot-an extremely sensitive piece of information that was inadvertently revealed by General Ronald Fogleman, the Air Force Chief of Staff, when the general told reporters at a promotion ceremony last Monday that monitors had detected "intermittent" transmissions. "I was dumbfounded he said that," one enraged nato official later declared. "I mean, why not just announce to the bad guys, 'We think he's alive and kicking, and we hope we find him before...
Much of the first scene, in which the characters mostly sit around and talk about the child's refusal to sleep, seems almost a parody of Mamet's trademark style, and the audience cannot resist laughing watching the adults and the child struggle awkwardly to keep afloat in the ceaseless torrent of words...