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...through the adroit subtlety of his magic-realist style, Mo Yan avoids stirring up the animosity of the country's ever vigilant censors any more than he needs to. Take his latest novel. With China's highly controversial one-child population-control policy as its topic, Frog traces the life of a midwife who witnesses forced late-term abortions, forced sterilization and other horrors, and it does so whimsically - in the form of four letters and a play. The midwife's struggle to reconcile her conflicting loyalties to party, family and patients forms the backbone of the narrative, which...
...owner fully gets that if you sign a personal guarantee for a loan or line of credit and your business ends up defaulting, everything you own can be seized, including your house, wedding rings and, in some states, joint bank accounts. Your wages can be garnisheed, as can your life-insurance policies. Bottom line: anything that looks juicy to the bank is up for grabs...
...this $2 taco affecting people on this level?" Choi asks, standing next to one of his four trucks. "You have these famous chefs and farmers' markets with fresh vegetables, and you have fast food--and nothing in between," he says. "If I introduced you to 100 people in my life, 90 of them will never have eaten real Parmesan cheese...
...seduces us utterly. Fanning plays Cherie Currie, recruited at age 15 by Svengali Kim Fowley (a witty Michael Shannon) to sing and provide what he calls "jailbait sex appeal." The movie was based on Currie's memoir, Neon Angel, so we get a much fuller picture of her home life than that of anyone else in the band, even Jett. Currie has an alcoholic father (Brett Cullen), a foolish mother (Tatum O'Neal) and a sister, Marie (Riley Keough), who in real life is an identical twin. The rapport between Fanning and Keough (Elvis Presley's granddaughter) is so strong...
...when the film was shot, turns in a performance of startling maturity. It's not just that she's sexy, although that is unexpected and slightly hard to process. (Only four years have passed since she was Fern in Charlotte's Web.) It's that she suggests an inner life for Currie that is both enigmatic and completely sympathetic. She underplays with mastery, revealing Currie as vapid, malleable, ordinary and lost, but at the same time riveting on- and offstage...