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...then banished until the final chapter, and the story is taken up by a second narrator, Tom Stewart, a British lad who makes the sea trip to Hong Kong in 1934 at age 21. It's here that the narrative slows. On the trip east he meets Sister Maria, a Chinese nun "not so much pretty as perfect." She somehow teaches him Cantonese in six weeks, they become friends and Tom launches his career as a hotelier in Hong Kong, where his Chinese gives him a double-edged insight into the divided colony. The years pass and Stewart comes...
...Lanchester could be forgiven for building his epic around an untenable love triangle (Tom, Sister Maria, God). Thwarted passion has always been ready fuel for romantic works, but it requires that someone actually show passion. We know how Tom feels about the changing moods of the South China Sea, and how Sister Maria feels about God, but we aren't given a single overt clue as to how they feel toward each other until Lanchester stoops to the positively Victorian device of a misplaced letter. Lanchester neither shows nor tells, infuriatingly keeping every important moment of emotional revelation offstage. That...
...Horse was killing Custer on the banks of the Little Big Horn. I remain stunned by these contradictions, by the successive generations of social, political and artistic mutations that can be so beautiful and painful. How did we get from there to here? This country somehow gave life to Maria Tallchief and Ted Bundy, to Geronimo and Joe McCarthy, to Nathan Bedford Forrest and Toni Morrison, to the Declaration of Independence and Executive Order No. 1066, to Cesar Chavez and Richard Nixon, to theme parks and national parks, to smallpox and the vaccine for smallpox...
...calm seemed to settle over Padilla after he came out of jail in late 1992. Maybe he had aged out of petty crime, or maybe his girlfriend, Cherie Maria Stultz, had helped him control his temper. At a Taco Bell in Davie, Fla., Padilla and Stultz found jobs with and a mentor in the restaurant's manager, Mohammad Javed, a Pakistani immigrant. "They were poor but trying to make something of their lives--buy a car, establish a good credit rating, things like that," Javed says. Javed, a Muslim who now runs an Islamic elementary school in Broward County, insists...
...Rice," and Eleonora Rossi Drago, the keen-featured seductress of Antonioni's 1955 "Le Amiche." The pageant winner was the luminous 16-year-old Lucia Bos?, who would star in Antonioni's first two features, "Cronaca di un amore" and "The Lady Without Camelias." Second place went to Gianna Maria Canale, who was "Theodora Slave Empress" before co-starring in "Hercules." And in third place: Gina Lollobrigida, one of an imposing group of Italian actresses to star in Hollywood as well as Italian movies. The list is long and enticing: Valentina Cortese, who made the 40s "Thieves Highway"; delicate Pier...