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...Mathieu succeeds by refusing to portray Namu as just a simple girl with big dreams. The book focuses on Namu's difficult relationship with her mother?no small hurdle in the Land of Women?and with pretty much everyone else. Namu spent years isolated in the mountains herding yaks with an uncle who never speaks. She jealously punishes her sister by feeding her a sausage of human feces to protest her sister's larger portions of meat. By the final pages of the book, Namu has beaten two people bloody, devastated a suitor, demolished a kitchen with...
Colorful, robust, with sparse yet subtle brushstrokes, the paintings portray characters at once familiar and strange. “The Policeman” wears tiny heels on one foot and has a green sith bottle for a hand. The gold-and-glass headed “Insane Cardinal” has no hair but still has panache, holding a glass of wine in one hand while riding on a tire...
...York Times column, Frank Rich ’71 said the actor’s “pre-emptive strategy is to portray contemporary Jews as crucifying Mel Gibson.” Gibson, in a now infamous New Yorker piece, said of Rich, “I want to kill him. I want his intestines on a stick…I want to kill...
...Tsai frames the shots in What Time Is It? is often breathtaking, if occasionally frustrating for an audience accustomed to the frantic cuts and fades of music videos and news updates. He says that he spends a huge amount of time looking for the perfect space in which to portray the variously nuanced emotions he seeks, and that he feels that “space is vital to character development, especially the way in which the characters move in the space...I try to view the space as the character would...
Furthermore, Tsai claims that all his films try to portray the attitudes he has in his own life, and that many autobiographical elements are incorporated into his films. The insecurity and paranoia of Lee and his mother is drawn, Tsai says, from his own experience of losing his father at the age of 30 (he says his own reaction included a fear of leaving his room at night, to the point of urinating in water bottles and plastic bags...