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Ford's passion, however, was not Central Asia but China. His interest was sparked by an uncle, Leonard Trigg, a kung fu expert who often traveled to Asia. Ford learned martial arts from Trigg and chose his high school--Lincoln--because it taught Chinese. Ford continued to study the language at Portland State University, where teachers regarded him as an ideal student. "We expected him to have a career in international relations," says Linda Walton, a professor of Chinese...
...endearing growl, 25-year-old Josh Ritter sings about the “small moments”—everyday occurences that may seem insignificant to the casual observer. Inspired by the likes of Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, Ritter paints evocative pictures of life. His lyrics are full of metaphor and are rich in description and imagery: “I keep you in a flower vase / With your fatalism and your crooked face...
Anderson’s story begins with Barry in the dumps, burdened with a trying job and a smothering family, and goes on to track his journey towards happiness and fulfillment. Barry’s catalyst for this journey comes in the form of Lena Leonard (Emily Watson), with whom Barry becomes so smitten that he follows her on a trip to Hawaii. At the same time, he gets to exercise his developing backbone when he becomes the target of a extortionist phone sex operator who dispatches goons to shake Barry down for cash...
...Carl K. Leonard ’06 keeps pretentiously correcting the way his entrywaymates pronounce various French phrases. One phrase they’ve never had trouble with is “Carl est un douchebag?...
...major character has a theory about at least one of them. Alex, for instance, is compiling a book that divides the world into people and things with "Jewish" traits (including poplar trees, Jimmy Stewart and John Lennon) and "goyish" traits (including oak trees, Elvis fans and the Jewish troubadour Leonard Cohen). It's inspired by a Lenny Bruce riff, the novel's epigraph, but it becomes a predictable dog-people-vs.-cat-people dichotomy. In her narrative Smith acknowledges and dismisses the pop-psychological interpretations that Alex's book invites--"The Mixed-race people see things double theory...