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...rifle-toting soldier leads a miner, a steelworker, a farmer and a scientist, urging, "Behind the Army First Flag, Forward March!" The backgrounds of posters like this typically feature icons of North Korean modernity-missiles, smokestacks, construction sites, dams, electricity towers, desktop computers and walkie-talkies, which seem to possess the kind of cutting-edge cachet that could only exist in a country where almost no one owns a cell phone...
...will have to suffice. Waterfront's Terry is shyly courting Eva Marie Saint's convent girl. She drops her glove. He picks it up and casually, talking about other things, tries to wriggle his fingers into it. What else of hers might he similarly, clumsily like to invade and possess? And how, we wonder, have we similarly, unconsciously betrayed our truest intentions while pretending that we were just kidding around...
...staked a slightly more credible claim to actually being the next Julia Roberts. Knightley has Roberts' angular frame, avenue-wide smile and unforced sass, and she's grateful for what she calls the "insane and ridiculous luck I've had getting these big roles," but she does not possess the genetic code to be happy as a full-time romantic heroine--pirate thwacker. (To date, she is a holdout from the Pirates sequel.) What she would rather do is "keep learning, do strange things, keep pushing to get better...
...pianists both possess awesome technical mastery, but their approaches to the repertoire are quite different: Lang is a young Chinese Horowitz, pounding the keyboard with bravura intensity, whereas Li is a lucid interpreter with a poetic sensitivity, reminiscent of Artur Schnabel or Rudolf Serkin. After their respective debuts in America last year, the critics responded with the kind of ecstatic raves not seen in a long time. Richard Dyer, a critic at the Boston Globe, declared that Li "has the talent, the looks and the personal charisma to be a standard-bearer for a new generation." Following his recital...
...because of my respect—and slight envy—for those who do possess that capacity that I felt a little embarrassed of my own, less ambitious plans for June, July and August. I sometimes wished that I had taken the time in November to fill out that application, or over spring break to make that interview, so that I could join my friends in being able to say, “Yes, I have a job this summer.” And not just any job, but a real job, a 9-to-5, work...