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...film. He mixes documentary realism with dream sequences, rapid montages, video-game graphics, even a darkly comedic animated scene called "Suicide Manual," in which a typical-looking Singaporean kid offs himself in ever more creative?and bloody?ways. Despite his experimental forays, Tan knows when to let the camera linger on the faces of his young actors and wait for the pain to surface. With its white skies and overexposed tropical light, his Singapore is a beautiful void, one that mirrors the emptiness inside his characters...
...sexuality. Sometimes, late at night, the secretly gay wander near our rooms, or call our collective phones, trying to convince my roommates to spend a few moments—or a night—with them when no one’s looking. And there are always those who linger too long in the elevator, or brush up against my roommates in the dining hall, making us all wonder if the Mather gay circle extends even further than we thought...
...felt a sense of narrative significance in the quirks of fate that directed me back to Eliot H-44, but struggled to see its shape. I go to college 10 minutes from home and end up where my parents began. Does this mean I am fated to linger forever in the shadow of their memories? I had my first slice at ’Noch’s when my parents decided to take me to this pizza place they loved when they were in college. I used to sit with my father on the big stone benches...
...scholars say there is little time to linger over emotions...
...century pop music, the one that has resisted revival most devoutly is folk. Easy to see why: the music was both cheery and pompous, cleaner than Harriet Nelson's kitchen and nearly as white as the 1963 Masters tournament. In many middle-aged minds, the old folkies linger as a vague adolescent embarrassment--the musical equivalent of sophomore zits...