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...eighth novel, The Painter of Birds, L??dia Jorge aims to create a story full of rich language and imagery. And perhaps when read in its original Portuguese the novel achieves her goal. But in translation, much of this richness is lost. The novel seems to be competing with itself: the timeframe, plot line and character interactions are complex, but the writing itself is simple. This competition works against the novel, making it good, but not outstanding...
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...left the local industry in something of a quandary, namely, how to continue creating the unique brand of action found in Chinese films without qualified martial artists? Consequently, Hong Kong producers have been forced to do the once-unthinkable: transform ordinary popstars and actors into action heroes Ã¥ l??¡ Charlie’s Angels and The Matrix. With a team of professional stunt coordinators and martial arts choreographers lending their not-inconsiderable talents, Yip weaves pure action poetry of the frenzied, explosive kind. Words fail to describe the raw power distilled in each battle. The stars acquit themselves...
Once the breakthrough came, it came quickly. Within a week after Collins' men had seized the St.-L??-Périers road, General Patton's newly organized Third Army started to push south and in one day advanced 40 miles into Brittany. "Whether the enemy can still be stopped at this point is questionable," German headquarters near Paris warned Hitler. "The enemy air superiority is terrific and smothers almost every one of our movements . . . Losses in men and equipment are extraordinary...
What sticks in Van Hoy's memory even more vividly, though, is an incident during the attack on St.-L??. "I had just lost two of my best friends," he says. "They were picked off right next to me. Then, in St.-L??, we had just seized an artillery battery and taken all these prisoners when our own artillery started hitting all around us. I jumped into a bunker hole with two of the Germans. They marked on the side of the wall that they were 17 years old and had bicycled for three weeks from Germany to get there...