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In response to China's gains - which include putting out three new submarines a year since 1995 - neighboring countries have also set about beefing up their fleets. Just a week after the ceremonies in Qingdao, Vietnam announced its purchase of six kilo-class submarines from Russia. On May 2, the...
And yet most children grow up believing that their home, school, place in society, however comfy or mean, is the norm - what else have they to compare it with? A man-child as perceptive as Davies can find honor and poignancy in the domestic chores of those days: feeding the...
Feeling apart, alien, inferior, Terry was drawn to "Jimmy Preston, who was a real boy, and whom I envied; Jimmy Preston, who once put his hand on my shoulder, and I didn't want him to remove it." Homosexuality was not just a sin to Catholics; in Britain it was...
Anyone so deeply indebted to his youth will naturally be suspicious of change. In the '60s, the Beatles made Liverpool the world's pop-cultural Mecca, yet Davies sees "John, Paul, George and Ringo: as "not so much a musical phenomenon, more like a firm of provincial solicitors." The smooth...
In Davies' adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's The Neon Bible, the central character says, "If you were different from anybody else in town, you had to get out." In one sense, Davies escaped his youth; in another, he keeps returning. And his imaginative understanding of it hits the viewer...