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...couple have a son, Tietou (played by three children in the 15-year course of the narrative), and all seems well. But shortly thereafter, the family begins its run of exemplary bad luck -- everything rotten that could have happened to anyone in the plague years of Maoist China seems to happen to them...
...blustery day at Ohiri Field, Harvard (8-3 overall, 3-1 Ivy) thumped Brown (3-7, 1-4) by the score of 13-2. The result was a lot better than the tragedy last Sunday, when something was rotten at Ohiri Field in an 11-2 loss to Maryland...
...result was a lot better than the tragedy last Sunday, when something was rotten at Ohiri Field in an 11-2 loss to Maryland...
...kill yourself!" screamed Johnny Rotten (a.k.a. John Lydon), as the Sex Pistols self-destructed on stage at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. Was Rotten's taunt hyperbole, irony, prophecy? It was January 14, 1978 and it would be their last performance. The following year, bassist Sid Vicious would die form a drug overdose...
...should we take the metaphor so literally? While John Lydon committed aesthetic suicide, Frances Bean will never know her father. Perhaps we should recall Johnny Rotten's last words: "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated...