Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Joy Luck Club," based on Amy Tan's novel, works like a photo album, presenting to the audience brief glimpses of the remarkable lives of four Chinese American women and their grown-up daughters. But it is not organized chronologically. Instead, each scene pivots on the emotional significance of the preceding...
...death of one of the mothers, Suyuan Woo (Kieu Chinh). The seven surviving women and their families gather to celebrate the departure of Suyuan's daughter, June (Ming-Na Wen), for China, where she will seek out two long-lost sisters, previously thought to be dead. In "The Joy Luck Club," the daughters must look back to and acknowledge their mothers' experiences in China in order to sort out their own lives. June's impending journey is physical enactment of this...
...might guess, men play only supportingroles in "The Joy Luck Club." June's father, whodoes not appear until the end, speaks only as amessenger from her dead mother, and Waverly'slover's underwear has about as much screen time ashe does. The male characters are invariablyone-dimensional, each sustaining about one traitmeant to bring out the heroines' strengths bycontrast...
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...feels good, what can I say?" said Glashow, who won the physics Nobel in 1979. "It's a great joy to be appreciated in that fashion and to have a marvelous fairy tale trip to meet the king and queen...