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...still hasn't revealed his real name (Jiang is a pseudonym), the obligation to promote Wolf Totem means that these days Jiang will reveal previously guarded details of his life and the creation of his unlikely best seller - and they make it clear that behind the slightly donnish exterior, he has lived with the same willful spirit as the wolves he writes about. He has, for instance, been arrested five times for being a "counterrevolutionary," experiencing beatings and five years in prison (the last stint for leading a group of students to the protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square...
...used by the adults around them. The film relies on scenes of daily life—a man filling his car at a gas station, a woman crossing the street holding a baby, a sweeping view of the town—to create a superficial sense of security. The exterior goings-on of this “Pleasantville”-esque neighborhood renders its interior discord shocking. “Snow Angels,” while successful in its faithful representation of human relationships, suffers from some heavy-handed production choices that warp the bleak into the boring. Most notably...
...best to fight them: I’ve gone public with the city.”At the Feb. 11 council meeting, Annis said Harvard’s construction workcaused his foundation to sink—resulting in the cracks in his walls—and damaged the exterior of his house when it was struck by a flood of slurry, a material used to hold back dirt during excavations.Other Riverside residents at the meeting complained that they felt excluded from the decision-making process surrounding the Cowperthwaite project.Construction began on the six-story Cowperthwaite apartments in 2005, as part...
...that make the sacrifice seem worthwhile. The film’s finest achievement, however, is in convincing the viewer to fall in love with Anne, just as Henry VIII does. Ironically, it does so by oscillating between Anne’s ugly psychological turmoil and her beautiful, calculated, eloquent exterior. In fact, it is in the moments that Anne herself becomes “the other Boleyn girl”—isolated, vulnerable, and afraid—that the film feels closest to history rather than fiction. —Staff writer Jenny J. Lee can be reached...
...untrained and that’s honest enough to point to an understanding of the universality of melodrama. In many ways, it seems obvious that Darnielle knows what makes his albums work: a hybrid of the mundane and the openly emotive. No matter the accompaniment, something beneath the sonic exterior of “Heretic Pride” clearly understands emotions in a highly personal way and knows how to convey them beautifully to the listener...