Word: pang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film's first scene, an unseen plutocrat tells his young daughter, "Opium is the source of all inspiration." He blows the sweet smoke in her face, which creases into a sickly smile. Opium is the curse of the House of Pang. Those who surrender to it will corrupt the children of the palace, Ruyi (Gong Li) and Zhong-liang (Cheung), creating a new generation of addicts. As grownups, these adult children will stare into the camera, their only confidant, to express their impotent rage; and their faces will be streaked with tears as chic as pearl drops...
Still, when I received the information in my mailbox detailing the extraordinary number of programs that my contribution would support--and that most of my contribution would go to providing financial aid for students for years to come--I felt a pang of guilt for refusing to help out. Then, about a week ago, when each of us received a "personalized" letter from Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles that emphasized the importance of current and lifelong giving, I almost felt that I was betraying my own grandfather by saying...
...score. It's entirely conceivable; those feelings aren't unknown to me. In fact, I would be surprised if more than a small minority of Harvard students were entirely comfortable in their intellectual skin. I like to call it the "I'm the mistake" syndrome--that anxious, ephemeral pang we all entertain for a moment and then dismiss, only to feel guilty that we seriously entertained...
...dozen or so pop composers--some veterans of the '60s like Bacharach, Lesley Gore (It's My Party) and King's ex-husband Gerry Goffin, others so young they weren't alive when the Brill Building was the Pentagon of pop--wrote tunes with the bounce and pang of the old stuff. As Gore, who helped write one number in Grace of My Heart, says of the old songs, "They were simple and direct. They got to the heart of the matter...
That might not seem unique in a genre that tries to put a pang in every twang. It's true: misery loves country. But Loveless has a purity, a disdain for emotional compromise, that sets her above the standard ingratiators. Since her early hits (Jealous Bone, I'm That Kind of Girl), her voice and choice of material have matured; she's grown up in public. Another coal miner's daughter, Patty is a cousin of Loretta Lynn's--like about half of the singing South. But her true musical kin is Tammy Wynette, country's calamity queen. Like...