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Reality TV may be so hospitable to immigrants because it's a fun house mirror of the immigrant experience. You leave your comfort zone and prove your worth with little more than gumption and (maybe) talent. Wherever you come from, you embrace a new, anything-goes culture that values chutzpah over tradition and propriety. Emigré Burnett's shows, like The Apprentice, are full of Horatio Algerisms about industry and opportunity--not unlike Ugly Betty...
...universal, but the cantata simply lacked the feel of modernity present in the last two cantatas.In the third cantata, “Amour piqué par une abeille,†Venus and her son Love are in a garden. When Love is stung by a bee, he seeks comfort from his mother who reminds him that his own stings of love are much more painful. A lovely story in itself, the performances of Caitlin C. Vincent ’07 and Singerman added an additional comedic storyline. Vincent, the clear standout of the entire performance, played the role...
...physicists, are short-cuts through the fabric of space-time that take us to other versions of this universe. At the denouement of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play “Rabbit Hole,†the bereaved mother at the center of the play finds unexpected comfort in the concept of alternative realities, that perhaps “this is just the sad version of us.â€Audience members may also find comfort in the idea that this production is just a mediocre version of the show, and that in some happier universe, lazy direction...
...entitled men to unwanted advances and women to judgmental looks. I could never walk down the street alone without a constant, infuriating paranoia that had me counting down the hours until my flight home. It made me resent Egypt and Islam in general, but I always had the comfort of knowing that I would eventually return home. For millions, that paranoia is an inescapable daily reality, and the consequence of a sad social phenomenon that has long been due for reform. Needless to say, religion tenaciously resists change—especially a religion that is under constant political attack...
...Still, the presence of Xiaomei and hundreds of fellow dog lovers was a sign of changing times in China. Once the reviled symbol of bourgeois indulgence during China's Cultural Revolution and largely wiped out, pet dogs - there are an estimated million or more in Beijing - now provide comfort and status to a rapidly swelling middle class. So, the canine crackdown has provoked a struggle that pits the power of Beijing's newly rich against the reflexive authoritarianism of the ruling Communist Party. Just how the contest plays out will provide telling insight into how Chinese society is adapting...