Word: madamã
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...children step in, the two find that their lives and their friendship are not entirely under their control. In Mr. Shi’s case, his daughter has run out of tolerance and booked him a ticket for a cross-country bus tour without his counsel or consent. In Madam??s case, her children hastily ship her off to a nursing home. In each instance, the central conflict is ageism, not racism. Half of the film is taken up by Mr. Shi trying to talk to his daughter, sometimes in English, other times in Chinese, but always painstakingly...
...that this is necessarily a partisan issue, either: Sen. Larry Craig was positively marooned by his Republican Party—presumably because its members find cloacal homosexual activity abominable—while his Louisiana counterpart David Vitter emerged unscathed from an encounter with the “D.C. Madam??. One suspects the Senate was less than eager to get to the bottom of that...
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