Word: crookedness
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He's been selling the paper since the beginning of the year and has no false illusions or pretensions about why he works. "It's a way to make some money and," he says with a crooked smile, stained teeth frighteningly revealed, "I'm trying to meet a girlfriend." He...
Tennessee is a variation on Lughnasa's themes: the intertwining of pagan and ) Christian traditions, the virtues and dangers of connecting with one's animal self, loneliness within family and marriage, the paralyzing loss of certainty in the modern world. But in Lughnasa themes emerged organically from storytelling. In Tennessee...
There are, of course, the fear brokers who cash in during hurricane season, from the crooked storeowners who jack up prices on emergency necessities to the professional crooks that offer homeowners a sweet deal and then disappear with their money.
'Raise the crooked and set them over the straight andthe common people will not look up to you.'II. 19
Like the Amy Tan novel, Wayne Wang's film of The Joy Luck Club shuttles between imperial China and today's San Francisco. Four immigrant ladies, who meet for mah-jongg and call themselves the Joy Luck Club, have four American- born girls, now in their 30s. While the daughters...