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After the war, Jim travels to Germany to visit Catherine and Jules, who have a young daughter named Sabine. When the threesome meet again, they all comment that nothing and none of them has changed. There is a bitter pang as Truffaut undercuts their statement Everything has changed; Jules no longer smokes and has taken to entomology, Jim has shorn his moustache and seems older, Catherine wears glasses and appears less radiant. Jules informs Jim that things are not going well, that he has not been able to hold Catherine, and that Catherine has run away several times. Jules...
...came] in order to gain a better outlook on the political aspect of Asian-American life, and I hope that this conference will stick to what it said it was about," said Phelana W. Pang, a Duke University first-year...
...attention," says Nie Zheng, 23, a Beijing artist and photographer. That means forfeiting job security and welfare benefits that traditionally bound even artists to the socialist system. But Nie earns enough from free-lance work to pay for Japanese cameras, CDs and designer sunglasses. The parents of Pang Rui, 18, want him to have security as a teacher or a doctor. But the university-bound student from Xian demurs: "I want to be free to earn a lot of money from a job I like...
...Francisco Days, Isaak continues to refine a style that, despite a '90s shimmer, is steeped in the strum and twang of the lonesome-cowboy blues. Backed by spare, guitar-centered arrangements, Isaak's compositions convey the aching pang of emotion without ever sounding wimpy. On Beautiful Homes his rich tenor throbs with vulnerability as he sings, "I stare at your window and I cry/ I love you so much/ I love you too much." He brings equal ardor to Two Hearts, a Latin-tinged Valentine levitated by his soaring falsetto, and a stirring remake of Neil Diamond's Solitary...
...rival, should duke it out for the title of most beautiful star on the Asian screen. Cheung wins, because this is his story, and he is equal to the doomed sensitivity of the role. Thanks in no small part to his presence, and performance, Concubine has the sweep and pang of a novel that keeps you reading till dawn, then lives in your dreams...