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...Lunar New Year, China's most important holiday, the country's President took time out from running the world's next superpower, drove several hours outside Beijing and knocked unannounced at the two-room village home of peasant Lu Zhanlin. As Lu gaped in astonishment, Hu helped the family stuff dumplings and chatted for an hour about corn prices. Then he handed Lu a red envelope with $120 to buy fertilizer and left. "Hu says he'll help us grow richer, and he follows through on his promises," says Lu, who was impressed--even though "my dumplings looked nicer...
...Pops concert tonight, which is Swedish night, the following program will be played: Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Supre Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninov Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi Suite, "Sigurd Jersaliar" Grieg a. In the Hall of the King b. Festival Marea Saeterjentens Sondag (Solitude on the Mountain) Bull Svendsell Swedish Wedding March Soderman Second Norwegian Rhapsody Svendsen Finlandia, Symphonic Poem Sibelius Humeresque Tehaikovsky-Jacchia Waltz "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss
...stone carvings he loved, their sense of eternity, was not to be found in the picnic scenes that beguiled Monet and Renoir. Even in France, Gauguin had ventured in search of locales in which day-to-day life might still show glimpses of ancient mystery. For a while, the peasant villages of Brittany served as his nearby version of the faraway...
...acting is full of satisfactions and surprises. Law has movie-star musk and the craft to fill his peasant garb with a heroic sensitivity. Kidman seems uncomfortable early on, but she takes strength from Ada's plight and grows steadily, literally luminous. Her sculptural pallor gives way to warm radiance in the firelight. Portman lends a tender ferocity to the widow aching for the presence--the memory, really--of a good man's body next to hers. As for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, voting is now officially closed; Zellweger should take it by acclamation...
...town. Dirt tracks through the olive groves have become paved roads. Not long ago, it was a minor scandal when a girl student, back for the summer, walked around in a T shirt and cutoff jeans; now local girls sunbathe in thong bikinis. What we first encountered as a peasant society, whose rhythms were agricultural and ritualistic, has become a wholly modern...