Word: glorious
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...chronically exhausted that during their afternoon break, they collapse in eight-to-a-room iron bunks to sleep. The Weifang academy is a collection of moldy concrete buildings, with only red socialist banners to break the monotone grays. LEARN FROM OUR COMRADES AND CREATE A NEW AND GLORIOUS OLYMPICS, urges a slogan in the weight-lifting gym. Taped to a wall nearby are rows of so-called self-criticism essays that the girls have written assessing their own performances. "I must try much harder," says Cloud's paper. "I do not want to disappoint." Some practice rooms...
...tell her while I have the chance? That you and your classmates have changed since you arrived in kindergarten: you can read now, write in cursive, know the backstroke and long division and the state capitals. But middle school is an identity crisis waiting to happen. Right now your glorious brain is firmly lodged in the good head on your shoulders, which sit atop a body whose feet are firmly planted on the ground. All of this is about to change...
When a group of men calling themselves Descendants of the Serbian Fighters From the 1912-20 Balkan Wars congregates for a ritual burning of the U.S. flag, most of the patrons of La Dolce Vita don't even bother to turn around. The morning sun is glorious on the terrace of the split-level bar overlooking the Ibar River, and the young men in black T-shirts are content to smoke their Marlboros and nurse their cokes, eyeing the more prosperous opposite bank of the river. They never cross the bridge, of course, because the Ibar marks the dividing line...
...since the tiny nation emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union has given Kazakhstan anything like the recognition generated by Borat Sagdiev. That would be Borat, the comic alter ego of British actor Sasha Baron-Cohen, in his spoofy mockumentary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Thanks to Borat, Nazarbayeva no longer has to explain where she's from: "I fly to the United States, Europe, anywhere, and give my passport to immigration," she says. "They all say: 'You are from Kazakhstan? Borat...
...looked more ravishing than in her long, pensive scene here; the planes of Tony Leung Ka-fei's visage have the drama of great modern architecture. Leslie Cheung, wise, pouty, ever dangerously alert, binds this poetic, episodic film. A suicide at 46, in 2003, Leslie will live forever in glorious films like this one, which I'm happy to say is being released for U.S. theatrical distribution by Sony Pictures Classics...