Word: lily
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...Knesset cafeteria for a lunch of chicken soup and schnitzel, not a single legislator approached his table to join him. Each night Sharon takes a helicopter from his office in Jerusalem to his Negev home, Sycamore Ranch. When he's there, he likes to reminisce about his late wife Lili, whose grave lies on a hilltop under a tree starkly visible against the horizon from the kitchen window. Yet even the secluded ranch can be a reminder of his political troubles. He lives on the farm with Gilad, who is also embroiled in other corruption allegations, some of which concern...
...These are kids who fly before they walk and sort their friends by continent but can't answer the question "Where are you from?" without a pause. It's not just Western kids in Asia who feel the tug: Asians in Europe face the same sense of internal conflict. Lili Sin Hidge is a Malaysian-raised Hong Kong Chinese living in London. She has two teenage daughters with her husband, a Eurasian who grew up in South Africa. "They're much more free to do what they want," she says of kids in England. "But I want my children...
...before they walk and sort their friends by continent but can't answer the question "Where are you from?" without a pause. It's not just Western kids in Asia who feel this tug of conflicting identities: Asians in Europe face exactly the same sense of internal conflict. Lili Sin Hidge is a Malaysian-raised Hong Kong Chinese living in London. She has two teenage daughters with her husband, a Eurasian who grew up in South Africa. "They're much more free to do what they want," she says of kids in England. "But I want my children...
...films and buxom topless starlets? Wait no more: Ludivine Sagnier to the rescue. Voluptuous and pouty, Sagnier has her limitations as an actress - she doesn't radiate so much as glower - but just now she's everywhere in French movies, including two in the Cannes competition. In La Petite Lili, Claude Miller's summery adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, she disrupts the egos and libidos of all she meets. In François Ozon's Swimming Pool, she antagonizes and arouses older novelist Charlotte Rampling by sunbathing in the nude and bringing louts home to stay over. Neither film...
...career. He's gifted, no doubt, but in big-city music competitions, a bribe decides the winner. Nevertheless, Xiaochun gets a good teacher--Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), a sympathetic bohemian with a Dickens-novel quota of pet cats--and befriends an effervescent girl-on-the-make named Lili (Chen Hong, who offscreen is Chen's wife...