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...Written with a mix of phonetic Hokkien dialect and English, Shiga creates a fascinating and little-seen world. In both content and artwork Shiga emulates the style of Lat, a cartoonist with a Charles Shultz-level reputation in South East Asia. Having only started cartooning in 1995, Shiga has an extremely simple, cute and doodley drawing style. But watch out. With the kind of reversal that you later appreciate as a Shiga trademark, two thirds of the way through "Double Happiness" Tom takes an absurdly cruel beating at the hands of some thugs who seem to think he knows something...
...Stevens, confronting the challenging content of his adaptation of “Death and the Maiden” is the whole point. “The audience can’t sit and be passive. As a viewer,” he says, “you are forced to pay attention...
...nearly absolute rule that good restaurants in the Italian countryside serve either meat or seafood. Italians generally assume that restaurants serving both are catering to picky eaters. In many ways, the menu at No. 9 Park feels like it’s indulging people who are not content to eat the foods at which Lynch excels, but instead need a variety of options to satisfy their finicky tastes. The extremely skilled waiters know this, and are quick to push the kitchen’s strongest items, steering customers towards meat dishes, especially those of game and offal1, and away from...
...white farmers in Zimbabwe who now demand a peaceful and orderly land reform were content to do nothing through much of the first two decades of Zimbabwe’s nationhood. And Mugabe himself was not particularly concerned with land reform until it became politically expedient. But just because land reform was politically motivated does not mean that Western governments can take the high ground in their condemnation of Mugabe. For all the nations that criticize Mugabe, none has advanced a feasible and timely plan for reform. Britain, in particular, failed by not providing Zimbabwe with the money needed...
...speech received a standing ovation. Television feeds set up around the galleries could not accommodate the crowds, and many of the people crammed into the hall had to content themselves with only hearing the speech...