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...have ticked by, and Maupin has been promoted to the rank of specialist and turned 21. While most of the country may have forgotten about him since news of his capture made headlines and his bewildered face under a floppy hat was flashed across America's television screens, his hometown...
...banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers. His Red Sorghum was turned into a prizewinning 1987 movie by director Zhang Yimou and picked by Chinese readers in a 1996 poll as their favorite novel. Mo Yan's Northeast Gaomi County, a fictional realm based on his hardscrabble hometown in the eastern province of Shandong, is as vivid a spot on the literary landscape as William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha or Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Kenzaburo Oe, a Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is among many admirers who insist that Mo Yan deserves the gong himself. Given...
Beibin’s film festival experience started as a product of suburban teenage angst, as is typical of the punk scene. In 1999, seventeen-year-olds Skot Beaudoin and Mike Carroll proposed a mix of films and bands in a baseball field in their hometown of Doyleston, Penn. When the mayor denied them a permit, the group relocated the event to West Philadelphia, Beibin’s home, and the Lost Film Festival was born...
...wasn’t scary, with 150 girls already living in the Houses and an additional 334 girls moving with her that fall. She would share a suite with one friend who had already moved to Quincy in the spring, and she even knew one man, someone from her hometown. She had seen his room, which, coincidentally, ended up becoming hers. He helped her store and move her belongings into the third-floor suite, right next door to a room of four boys, “all of whom looked pretty appealing to us,” Barbara says...
...Hometown: Bethesda...