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...Friday night in the heart of old Shanghai, the crowd at J.J.'s is working up a postsocialist sweat. Men in suits and ties gyrate with fashionably dressed young women; at small tables newly affluent entrepreneurs sip drinks between calls on cellular phones. The young people at J.J.'s revel in something unprecedented for China: personal and professional liberation. Those with the will and skill to take advantage of economic reform are freer than ever to seek their fortune, their mate and their own identity...
...gratuitous blood-letting. If tragedy enthralls us with its cathartic resonance, and comedy with the pleasure of averted tragedy, then Colwin must have hoped to seduce us with sheer banality. There's no narrative crescendo, no crisis, no risk of a crisis; in short, no plot. You can revel in the lucid, elegant prose until you're blue in the face, but A Big Storm Knocked It Over constitutes the acid-proof proof that happy stories about happy people makes for unhappy reading...
...Wonderful" does revel in the visualsplendor of New York City, from the botanicalgardens to some gorgeous outdoor cafes, in itsattempt to create a romantic setting. But eventhese niceties can't hide the fact that "Mr.Wonderful" just...
...other time, I wouldn't have minded Nick's admonishments; indeed, generally I revel in hearing and thinking about other people talking about me. And I love convincing people that I'm 'not normal': Just yesterday, a friend of my girlfriend, upon hearing that she was going out with me, asked: "Wasn't he the one who had blue toenails freshman year?" I love stories like that. They make me feel important...
Awakened by memories of a scorching summer, students and tourists alike flocked to the Yard yesterday to revel in the 77-degree temperature...