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...Yellow Earth” takes place in a village on the banks of the Yellow River, where a soldier has been sent to collect folk songs to be used for promoting the Communist Revolution. His primary source is a young girl named Cuiqiao, who longs to escape her village and the arranged marriage that awaits her. Through haunting, tragic songs the girl communicates to the soldier—and, it is implied, to the country that surrounds them—the misery and oppression of life in rural China...
...Sixteen Candles.” “Pretty in Pink.” “Mean Girls.” There are many interpretations of high school life. For whatever reason, though, most stories about college tend to be full of one-sided, hard-partying characters. Zoe R.N. Sarnak ’09, writer and composer of new musical “The Quad”—which opened in the Loeb Ex last night and will run until this Saturday—has taken it upon herself to rectify this one-sidedness...
...warehouse where shy 28-year-old Brian Weathersby (Paul Dano, “There Will Be Blood”) works as a salesman. Later in the day, his airy daughter “Happy” (Zooey Deschanel, “Yes Man”)—a girl with expensive fashion taste and no inhibitions—arrives at the store with no other intention than to nap for three hours on his newly purchased bed.It is already apparent by the time Brian covers the girl with a blanket and gingerly removes the plastic demonstration skeleton from...
Slumdog Millionaire propelled nine-year old Rubina Ali to instant stardom and fame. However, too much fame can be a bad thing for a pretty little girl from an impoverished background. She has been subject to near constant media attention, witnessed brawls between her mother and stepmother over her custody and, most recently, been the subject of a dubious international sting operation...
...British tabloid News of the World purported to have caught Rubina's father, Rafiq Qureshi, on video agreeing to a deal to sell the girl to an Arab sheikh for 200,000 pounds (about $280,000). The story quoted Qureshi's brother as saying, "The child is special now. This is not an ordinary child. This is an Oscar child." Without bothering to check the allegations with Qureshi, Indian newspapers and cable television channels descended on Rubina in her home in a slum in Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai, asking her to clarify the incident. Qureshi has consistently denied...