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...notion that being able to feed your family means leaving the Philippines is a message kids are quick to internalize. Kay C Mendoza, who never knew her father and whose mother has been working overseas since she was five, lives in Mabini with her siblings. Her aunt lives nearby and checks in on them daily. She has a typical 13-year-old's concerns about gossip and boyfriends. But Mendoza is also already planning her career overseas. "I'm going to work hard so my mother can come home," Mendoza says...
...fact, the very idea that Obama should transform African Americans into the black Waltons is flawed. It rests on the notion that the black community, more than other communities, is characterized by a bunch of hapless layabouts who spend their days ticking off reparations demands and shaking their fist at the white man. The truth is that the dominant conversation in the black community today is not about racism or victimization but about self-improvement. In a 2007 Pew survey of black America, Bill Cosby was rated second among public figures believed to have the best influence on African Americans...
...amplify the allure of a product, ultimately trying to increase shoppers’ superfluous desires. Not only was this the first time that passers-by could look into stores without being chased away, but people were encouraged to look and even stare. (This was such a new-fangled notion that some department stores had to hire professional “window gazers” to help the trend catch on.) Bu ilding on these earlier techniques of layout and design, department store windows of the 50s and 60s were the context in which art and fashion literally merged. Window dressers...
...their roles. As the shy and socially inept Augie, Mintz-Plasse calls to mind his best-known role as McLovin’ in “Superbad.” Yet he still manages to make Augie unique and remarkably endearing. Thompson, on the other hand, challenges every notion of cuteness as he spews expletives and racial epithets with equal enthusiasm. Nonetheless, his character is surprisingly believable and ultimately winning. Perhaps most impressive of all is Jane Lynch as the ex-con director of the mentoring program. Lynch has played wacky before in films like “Best...
...love interest, responds with a mixture of empathy and idiocy: “That’s what’s so refreshing.”From its opening moments, it may seem that screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut is treading water—the notion of the “author-in-crisis” is a thematic thread that Kaufman explored ad nauseum in his 2002 screenplay for “Adaptation.,” directed by Spike Jonze. For all its novelties, that film was a headache, a neurotic monologue whose paranoid refrains only...