Word: entertainers
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...willingness of the generals to even entertain the idea of outside help was enough to excite Burma watchers who have been waiting for decades for something - anything - that might augur a sliver of openness from the military leadership. Hopeful aid workers point to the Indonesian province of Aceh, where the 2004 tsunami galvanized warring factions to lay down their arms. But Burma's seclusion is more akin to that of North Korea, a country that gulps down foreign aid without reciprocal political concessions. And corruption is so rampant in Burma that NGOs worry about how much aid will actually reach...
They are almost as different from one another as they are from their predecessors. Díaz, Lahiri's fellow Pulitzer winner, writes wild, slangy, funny prose laced with Dominican Spanish and Star Trek references. His determination to entertain is almost vaudevillian. Lahiri's stories are grave and quiet and slow, in the 19th century manner. They don't bribe you with humor or plot twists or flashy language; they extract a steep up-front investment of time from the reader before they return their hard, dense nuggets of truth. It's difficult to quote from her stories: they refuse...
...Danish as "Please come to our house for coffee," this phrase is used to welcome neighbors, friends, relatives and - increasingly - tourists into local homes. Along with the robust coffee, we are served plates of bread with smoked fish, followed by cakes and buns. And while we eat, our hosts entertain us with folk tales and stories of life in Sisimiut...
...Music is a process of self-realization,†he says. “That it is able to entertain, touch, or move other people is an added benefit...
There is very little to be grateful for in this production. Although the first half manages to produce a few laughs, as when the on-stage oral sex occurs, it is not quite funny enough to adequately entertain. The attempts at humor that occur during the first act do not sufficiently prepare the audience for the less entertaining second half, which is drier and tries harder to make its point after an hour and a half has already been spent producing a farce. One of the characters describes herself as “restless†in her marriage?...