Word: changefulness
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After witnessing the japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor as a dockworker in his native Hawaii, Al Chang joined the Army, got recruited as a cameraman and quickly became one of the country's best combat photographers. His most famous image, above, was of a U.S. soldier in the Korean War who, upon learning of a friend's death, broke down in another soldier's arms. Chang...
...Lust, Caution turns on a particularly dangerous liaison. Based on a novella by Chinese writer Eileen Chang, it's the story of a college student, played by Chinese TV actress Tang, who is recruited by a patriotic theater troupe planning to assassinate a cold-blooded interrogator for the occupying Japanese (played by Hong Kong star Tony Leung). To insinuate herself into his bourgeois world, and to ultimately seduce him, she transforms herself from a gawky ingenue into a ruby-lipped Mata Hari. She's initially playing a role. But her performance shades into real feeling, and their affair begins...
...film takes place in Shanghai during World War II. It's based on a short story by Eileen Chang which is much more subtle in describing the relationships between the characters. Why did you choose to be so explicit...
...sloth and debauchery.” Pavloff moonlighted as a chef in Boston during his senior year, but didn’t pursue the culinary arts as a profession. Now an engineer, he has put French debauchery aside and cooks mostly for himself and his family. For Joanne B. Chang ’91, cooking was a hobby that morphed into a profession. After graduating with a degree in applied math and economics, she began working as a consultant for Monitor Company. Now, she is the pastry chef at Flour Bakery and Cafe in Boston. “I loved...
...sumptuous Mata Hari melodrama that measures out its many luxurious over a 2-1/2hr. running time, Lust, Caution (from a short story by the late novelist and screenwriter Eileen Chang) is in a way the perfect blending of Ang Lee's two most popular films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. Like the first, it returns the Taiwanese native to China for a tale of political intrigue; like the second, it locates the passion, melancholy and power struggles of two complicated people. In a new book that includes the movie's original story, script and comments...