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...available, because I think comics echo the way the brain works. THC: How so?AS: We think in short bursts of language. We think in iconic cartoon imagery. A baby can recognize a “Have a nice day” smiley face before it can recognize its mother??s smile, so we’re hardwired to understand cartoon imagery. And the juxtaposition of panels automatically brings up notions of memory and of how time flows; you’re always looking backwards, forwards, and in the present, and that’s exactly...
...cruelties I experienced and heard remain in my memory,” Xing said in an interview through an interpreter. In one particularly graphic scene, a woman describes finding her headmaster disemboweled and beaten to death behind the schoolhouse. Later in the film, a man recounts his mother??s shooting, using his own chest to trace the path the bullet took. Merle Goldman, a professor emerita at Boston University and a research associate at the Fairbank Center, said she sponsored the viewing because it is the first Chinese movie she had seen about the Cultural Revolution...
...also spent much of Friday and Saturday unable to talk to her family. Her parents live outside Houston along Galveston Bay. After having stayed with family and friends during the mandatory evacuation, they were allowed a temporary return to salvage some possessions. Steele said looters were spotted in her mother??s neighborhood, and her house might have to be torn down due to damaged from a felled tree. “Now they’re just sitting and waiting,” she said. “You feel bad that you can?...
...travelers realize, people are the same, too. Maybe they speak a language I don’t yet significantly understand, maybe their customs are something I have to work to emulate, but the things that matter aren’t different at all. The lines highlighting my host mother??s mouth suggest my own mom’s smile, and the hands of the shepherd’s wife remind me of my grandmother’s. As my Chinese lags far behind proficient, the facial expressions and gestures that I rely on for communication cross all kinds...
...rich young man become so interested in the poor? He talked about his grandfather, Honey Fitz, and his concern about people down on their luck, and his “mother??s basic religious beliefs, Sermon on the Mount, and those obligations that we all had,” especially the passage from Luke: “of everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required...