Word: luo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some undergraduates, like Albert K. Luo ’04, said they do not feel threatened by RIAA’s recent legal actions...
...will continue to download in the wake of these subpoenas,” Luo said...
...Beijing last weekend, Tung probably didn't hear all the criticisms that China's leaders have of him. There are many. According to my source, politburo members Luo Gan and Li Changchun have blamed the Hong Kong government for expecting fewer than 50,000 protesters on the streets on July 1, when about 500,000 actually turned out. How, they have asked, could a government be so out of touch with popular sentiment?and how could they have so badly botched the selling of Article 23? Perhaps in search of a sympathetic ear, Tung requested a meeting with Jiang Zemin...
...less re-education camp than Mao's Outward Bound. But Seamstress, which earned a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign-language film, achieves moments of quiet beauty as well. Ma sheds confused tears at the mention of Balzac's Chinese translator, punished as a reactionary like Ma's father; Luo reads Ursule Mirouet out loud as if it were freshly written, while the seamstress lies in his lap and dreams of a new world...
...literally drowns the film in nostalgia during its unfortunate coda, turning the movie into a Chinese version of The Big Chill. Luo and Ma, two decades older, watch a video Ma has shot of the village that was their prison, now fated to be flooded because of the Three Gorges Dam. The video focuses on the little Chinese seamstress's room, long empty, long fled. Their tears fall quick, tears for that small gift of time when joy and pain were so closely bound that neither could be felt without the other. Which is, of course, the very definition...