Word: painings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single, "I Knew I Loved You," is a good ballad and shows off Hayes' falsetto nicely, but it's only a mild reflection of how poetic the rest of the album is. Affirmation deals not only with romance, but also with the real-life consequences of love and the pain that follows it. As their titles indicate, "I Don't Know You Anymore" and "The Lover After Me" aspire to this more reality-based love song, even though the soft beats and harmony make the melody very pretty. But it's "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine" that truly establishes...
...Influenced by German artist Kthe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945), Zhang's films capture struggle and pain without victimizing the subject. Zhang reduces life to its most basic elements-the individual and the interpersonal--and makes moments timeless. Unlike China's more commercial directors such as Feng Xiaogang, Zhang is not trying to play to a popular trope but to create a work of art that "could be seen 500 years ago or 500 years in the future and still be relevant...
...experiences, he seeks to "provoke Chinese people's thinking about their real lives and stir their memories of what has happened in the past." Yet even Zhang seems wary of his own medicine: he has not let his family see his films because watching them "invokes too much pain...
Late-night study sessions are a staple of Harvard life. Overcommitted students spend their daylight hours scrambling from class to section to extracurricular activities, stumbling back home only to be confronted with piles of problem sets, papers and pain. All of this makes us hungry...
...rarely bite; privates a few weeks ahead of you are generous with their time, anecdotes and advice. But they are as angry as we are. Those on active duty want to get where?they are going after boot camp, Brazil or Germany or wherever. Reserves feel a sharper pain, though; two weeks down the drain like this seems time truly wasted, coming directly out of their civilian lives...