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...work begins in earnest each morning at 8 a.m., which is before I--and most other undergraduates--wake up. For the first several weeks, the construction was tolerable. The workers merely moved dirt around all day. The only noise was the ceaseless beeping made by the backhoes as they backed...
...medieval churches and high-rises lies one of the most dismal landscapes in Europe. This is the heart of the rust belt: mile after mile of blackened smokestacks spew sulfurous coal smoke into the yellow sky; workers labor in ramshackle chemical and textile plants under Dickensian conditions of dirt and noise. To the east stretch crumbling tenements built 100 years ago; to the west sprawl ugly new developments virtually devoid of stores, cinemas or restaurants. Average monthly incomes would buy just $30 of goods in the West; "luxuries" ranging from women's shoes to oranges and shampoo are routinely unavailable...
...train whenever I want and go all over the country--although things are really far apart. I'm writing you from the middle of this dirt-pit known as Dakong. It is the home of some amazing 1560-year-old Buddhist caves which hold huge three-story-high Buddhas. Truly breathtaking. The monuments here are built on such a grand scale...
...male buddies, poised at the uneasy boundary between youth and middle age, sprawl in an overdecorated apartment and dish the dirt about opera singers. None can meet their fierce standards except Maria Callas (a performance by whom provides the play's title). They admire her for blending technique and emotion and, more deeply, for enduring a sad life and lonely death. Other artists, they say, impersonate the passion and hysterics of opera; she lived them...
Reporters are constantly told to look for the angles and discover the bad as well as the good. But in trying to uncover a complete picture of Young, a reporter begins to feel like (dare the tabloid be mentioned) a National Enquirer hack who can't find any dirt...