Word: inhabitability
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...Welcome to Sipsongpanna, daughter of the Dai. Welcome home." It was a magic moment and the culmination of an emotion-charged journey for my wife, Sawitree. She is the first of her large northern Thai family to travel back to the land of her ancestors, the Dai people, who inhabit the southern tip of China's Yunnan province. The region is now known as Xishuangbanna, a Sinicization of the Dai name, which means "12,000 fields...
...diver in "Boy on a Dolphin," she emerged from the sea in a clinging outfit that, when I was about 12, instantly induced puberty. But Loren had the whole package: swan neck, laughing voice, a poise and perfect posture rare among tall women and, not least, the gift to inhabit any role, serious or silly, as if she'd been born there. For me, Loren was Italian cinema incarnate - until Claudia Cardinale came along, and then Stefania Sandrelli. The Italian-actress assembly line just kept producing masterpieces...
...Institute of Politics and recruit our friends to manage our bids for the Undergraduate Council, imagining some not so distant future when our names will grace campaign signs instead of problem sets. Still others of us play academics, activists, artisans, the avant-garde. We fashion the world that we inhabit in the image of an adult world we’d like to know...
Fast and crude, Rall's drawing style perfectly matches the urgency and tone of the book. Boxy, flat characters with both eyes on the sides of their head inhabit environs with only the barest of detail. The cartoons function strictly as a way to efficiently set the place and action. As a result the fifty-pages-long comic in the middle of the book makes much of the prose chapters redundant. It does seem like the speediness of this book's appearance comes at the price of cohesiveness...
...develops) concluded that obsession is a normal part of growing up. First, obsessed with dolls and baseball stats. Later, obsessed with political systems, religions, ideologies. In the 1970s little Stevie Jobs and Billy Gates were taken with computers. Why? Because these microcosms of interest gave them worlds they could inhabit and control? Maybe...