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...Embracing Family is one of their more inspired finds, with a treasure of nuance and yearning packed into Kojima's unadorned prose. Shunsuke is simultaneously dazzled and exasperated by his wife's quest for satisfaction, admiring and despairing of American exuberance, fascinated and thwarted by modern gadgetry. The harder he tries to accommodate the new world, the more it punishes him. His wife becomes deathly ill, his children rebel, his friends snicker behind his back. "We're all together and our lives are filled with pain," he insists when the going gets roughest. That's only half right: at some...
That produced a fascinating musical fusion, but it didn't allay the doubts that most of the creators had, straight through rehearsals, about their quest and their sanity. Says set and costume designer Rob Howell: "Every other day one of us was wondering out loud, 'What. Are. We. Doing...
...heap over the past year. Cambridge Common, created in April 2005, has seven main contributors who regularly post with generally-liberal commentary on campus issues from Larry Summers to the Mission Hill After-School Program.Team Zebra—which began as a chronicle of its founders’ quest to bring two zebras to Harvard Square—also gained popularity during the most recent UC election.Andrew H. Golis ’06, one of the founders of Cambridge Common, says that “readership changed” in the wake of that election cycle...
...heart goes out to those children whose quest for a warm home might be temporarily put on hold, and I pray that eventually they will be welcomed by kind and loving parents. But I cannot ignore the larger, disastrous implications of granting Catholic Charities an exemption from the anti-discrimination law, an important law that guarantees homosexual individuals the same rights enjoyed by everyone else. Doing so discriminates against other religious groups that might have appealed for exemptions from the law and have been denied, and it constitutes a slap in the face for my atheist friends who can never...
...Montreal’s fanbase has significantly increased after teenyboppers heard their music on “The OC,” it’s safe to conclude that many of their listeners are still prepubescent. The video follows an animated suit-of-armor on its trippy quest for its one true love: a sword. Viewers indulge in a dangerously large dose of childlike wonder as they watch that suit-of-armor—which is inexplicably and awkwardly worn by an orange elephant—traverse bizarre landscapes replete with lions, tigers, and—wait...