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...country's only Nobel prizewinner, Gao Xingjian, lives in France?but Li's exile may prove short-lived. In 2004 Li applied for permanent residency in the U.S., but her first attempt was denied on the grounds that she had not sufficiently distinguished herself in her field of endeavor to earn a green card. (She still has a valid temporary visa.) Li is reapplying, but she knows the odds for a writer could be long. To earn residency, she explains, "You need to prove that you're extraordinary. But it's hard to prove that you're an extraordinary artist...
...that’s not how bands make it. You make it by building a base of permanent fans—not just transient college kids—and you tour.”This seems to be the problem at the core of Blanks.’s endeavor--even as they outgrow Harvard’s resources, they need student support to expand beyond the Signet/Quincy Cage scene. They’re banking on a strong showing of Harvard students at a critical gig next week to propel them to the next phase of their career. Blanks. will...
Taking the turn around the midway pole and heading back for home gives us the perfect opportunity to pause and examine what league play has brought thus far.To simplify this endeavor, it’s time to play a little game called overvalued or undervalued. The purpose here will be to point out those teams poised for a run up the standings during the latter stages of the year and those primed for a late-season fade.OVERVALUED:Princeton—The Tigers play four of their next six on the road and get an extremely vengeful Crimson squad...
...acting or production experience. Meyer insists that “we aren’t looking for theatrical talent as much as a good attitude and energy.” Script writers and production designers are also needed, in what will be “quite a creative endeavor due to our small budget, wacky scripts, and necessity for sets that we can bring on the T as we travel to the hospitals.” Meyer also declares that the benefits of HSTP for performers go far beyond providing much-needed enjoyment to sick children. The group...
...Wind.” If cartoon “Pocahontas”—complete with singing raccoon friends and pervaded by a sugary-sweet insistence that love does, in fact, triumph over all—was a staple of childhood, Malick’s latest endeavor is appropriate to the end of adolescence, from the characters’ introspective first-person voice-overs with their unabashed expression of idealism, to the casting of “heartthrob” Colin Farrell (“Alexander”) as the angst-ridden, yet hopeful, John Smith.The film?...