Word: plucking
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Chen Kaige does too. After many rigorous films, many fights with the censor board, he is entitled to pull a few plot strings, to pluck a few heartstrings--to make a film that wants to be liked. And isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love? --By Richard Corliss
...songs are packed. But they offer more than filler—each guitar stroke, violin pluck, barely audible incantation and keyboard trill is crucial and executed with style, evoking the album’s wistful but youthful tone...
Nothing in Wang's experience had prepared him for his U.S. venture. Like many other Chinese execs, he ad-libbed his way to the top, putting himself through engineering school and working his way up at Holley, then a low-tech but profitable state-run business. He has undeniable pluck--and he needed it when Holley nearly failed soon after he became chairman in 1987. Spurred by Beijing's calls for growth, he created two dozen units that were involved in everything from building roads to bottling water. Soon debts were nearly as big as assets, and the firm...
Although homeless people might seem like unlikely actors, Yoho Myrvaagnes ’01 saw acting as a way to help them express their concerns and frustrations. With pluck and patience, he has brought theater to people whose daily lives are usually concerned with finding food and warmth...
Owing two months' back rent is a constant in his life, but so is resourcefulness; this is the person who turned a discarded mattress into a ravishing coat. It's just a question of where his pluck and ingenuity will take him next. --By George Epaminondas...