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This small contact, multiplied by Lee’s angst over his father??€™s death and his general disengagement with his life, turns into an obsession that culminates in his quixotic quest to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time. His mother takes a parallel path, denying the death of her husband, setting food out for him as before and even attempting to recreate other aspects of their relationship. This is not a film to see on a first date, or with an elderly relative...
...teams and school cafeterias Brought to You by the Coca-Cola Corporation, I am not convinced that the benefits of growing up in these Branded United States of America outweigh the unique experience of a childhood really spent in places like Kingman, Arizona or Waco, Texas—my father??€™s childhood hometowns...
...chugging contest to Myst, a dancer at a Chinatown strip club, and then losing a double-or-nothing arm-wrestling contest with Trinity, Myst’s on-stage companion. The night took another turn for the worse when a drunken Mussolini inadvertently tipped the bathroom attendant with his father??€™s gold card. In his defense, Mussolini says, “Well, I did piss in the candy bowl...
...first encounter with Harvard was neither at my father??€™s 20th reunion nor my older brother’s move-in day. I didn’t read about the college in a book or hear about it in school. Instead, Harvard first came alive to me as I was glued to my suburban Ohio console television set, watching Zach Morris and Jessie Spano take their SATs on the popular teenage sitcom Saved By the Bell. Zach, Slater, Screech and the gang tricked the stuffy admissions officer into admitting Jessie, only to realize over burgers and fries...
...point during the expedition, Bruce Howard said he pointed to a plant near the rim of the volcano. To his father??€™s delight, the find turned out to be a new species of flowering plant...