Word: ruralism
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...Good Will Hunting. But Williams is a recovering schmaltzaholic, having engaged in a dangerous number of Patch Adams- and Mrs. Doubtfire-type roles. As therapy, apart from performing before 39 live audiences in 26 cities over the next two months, he's beating a woman to death in rural Alaska (in Insomnia, with Al Pacino), plotting the downfall of a TV rival (in Death to Smoochy) and stalking an adulterer, with a carving knife in his backpack (in One Hour Photo). "Those warm, open characters, outsiders who want to help other people--is that part of me? Oh, yeah," says...
...sharpest worry is that national homogeneity continues to be Japan's modern religion. There are no degrees of citizenship here: if you are not "a Japanese" your gaijin status is hammered home at every encounter with officialdom, every gape from rural school kids and every well-meant compliment on your chopstick skills. This is not an "Expat-as-Victim" article: I know that in the immigration authority's hierarchy of gaijinhood, Caucasians have a far easier time than, say, Filipino "Japayukis," Russian exotic dancers or South American laborers. My point is that foreignness is like a magical garment from...
...growing up in Hong Kong's rural Sheung Shui, Lau, the son of chicken farmers, hardly played with toy figures. "We were too poor," he says. (Today he has 30 boxes full of G.I. Joe, Ren and Stimpy, Playmobil and The Simpsons dolls in storage.) An artistic streak led him to design college, then to a stint as a struggling painter and part-time window-display designer for a department store. Lau got into 3-D art by accident. "The big change in my career was in 1997, when my friends in a band called Anodize asked...
McGahern is one of Ireland’s most prominent contemporary writers, claiming an accompanying slew of awards and visiting fellowships. Most of his novels unfold in Irish villages, the sort of quiet rural places where one generation stays and tends the farm while the children leave to make a life in a faraway city. Don’t expect quaintness though: the villages are as modern-minded as Dublin or London. There is a lot of “post-” to the small lakeside village of By the Lake: post-World War II, post-migration, post...
...ready to address the problems facing the country, but at the same time we cannot do that, we cannot develop the country, we cannot work for social equality-- we cannot do anything for Nepal without peace. I am eager to address the problems of the villagers. Ours is a rural country and the economy of the rural areas must be developed. To do any of this we must have peace. The inhumane methods being used by the Maoists will bring nothing but more suffering to the people of Nepal...