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...themselves for the potential humiliation of the selection process. Some appear surprisingly old?more, startlingly young?and almost all avoid the camera's gaze. Once the men have made their picks, the future couples and current strangers pass through immigration and brief counseling. As they absorb lectures on culture shock and communication, no one says a word to each other?no one even looks at each other?but Chang makes their body language easy to read. He captures the physical atmosphere of apprehension and awkwardness generated by two very different people suddenly cast together, for better or worse...
...They were in shock about what will happen next because I think that they really like me as dean,” Venky said. “There’s a sense of happiness for me, but it’s worrisome for them...
...translation turned out to be a success, eventually finding its way onto syllabi in universities across the country. But the shock waves that his father would send into the literary world three years later had not yet appeared on the radar. “I was still living in a kind of adolescent haze,” Nabokov writes, “unaware of...the full impact that my father’s presence had here, or would have upon world literature...
...They were in shock about what will happen next because I think that they really like me as dean,” Venky said. “There’s a sense of happiness for me, but it’s worrisome for them...
...They were in shock about what will happen next because I think that they really like me as dean,” Venky said. “There’s a sense of happiness for me but it’s worrisome for them...