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Chen has come of age in the course of his long odyssey. He cannot hide his pride when he says he will keep sending money to support his family in China, even after he has paid off his debt. For the time being he works with 17 other Chinese, all from Fujian, as well as five Bangladeshis and one Indian--not a green card among them. Finding proper papers will come. "I haven't had time to work that out yet," he says, implying it will not be that hard. Meanwhile, he is trying to learn English...
Hertsgaard's most recent book is Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
...first of these shows, "Survivor," is currently in production and slated to begin airing on a weekly basis starting Wednesday, May 31. Jeff Probst, of VH-1's "Rock & Roll Jeopardy," will serve as the host of this island odyssey, whose motto is "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast." In mid-March, sixteen castaways (eight men, eight women) were dropped on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea. They must build their own shelter and gather their own food. They are allowed only one "non-survivor tool" from home, like a picture or a hairbrush, but nothing else. They will have...
Never mind, for the moment, that this definition could, with a little tweaking of emphases, apply equally well to Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The R.W.A. is not indulging in literary criticism here but rather offering its 8,200 members a blueprint for success in the contemporary marketplace. Because the people who find the keenest emotional satisfaction in romance novels tend to be their authors and publishers. More than half the mass-market paperback fiction titles sold annually in the U.S. are romance novels. Factor in hardback sales...
...rips space travellers apart and astronauts soar weightless through their ship before our very eyes, there's little done in these moments to further the story's cause. There is also the sense that we've seen this all before, and we have. It was called _2001: A Space Odyssey_ from which this work has ripped much of its form and content. More polite individuals might choose the terms "derivation" from or "homage" to Kubrick's great work, but so many elements are copied from space suit construction to the space station's appearance and the aforementioned computerized vocals...