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Disney is no stranger to China. The company debuted there in the late 1930s, when the cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was screened in Shanghai. Today Disney sells Mickey Mouse gear through 1,100 Disney Corner outlets, and it wants to double that number over the next year. Disney movies and TV programs, like the popular Dragon Club series, appear on local television. With 24 hours of programming a week, Disney claims to be the largest foreign provider of films for Chinese TV. Disney's wholesome fare has given the company a leg up on getting its movies...
...Example: Henrik, the most tortured of this quartet, is allowed to reveal his charm before his pain, then his white-hot hatred, are allowed to postulate. Similarly, flashes of grace appear, like epiphanies in the January snow. In church, after Marianne has been singed by Henrik's rage against his father, beams of sunlight burst through the window; it is the visual counterpart of the organ chord that greeted Marianne as she entered. Later there's a privileged moment when Karin is told of a career opportunity and the ecstasy of anticipation briefly floods her face, as radiant as that...
...love to remember how Paul, usually the consummate athlete but only an amateur skier, was unafraid to lose a ski or two in his dogged pursuit of the expert trails. He was happy to whiz down the mountain with his friends and fully willing to end up in the snow instead of on it, if that’s what it took to have a good time...
...lyrics --"You know it's hard out here for a pimp/ When he's gotta get the money for the rent"--don't quite have the lilt of "Some day my prince will come." And the rapper who composed that verse is no Snow White. DJay is a black man, a Memphis, Tenn., dope dealer and peddler of prostitutes' flesh. But his yearning has the same intensity as any Disney heroine's. For DJay has a mission: he wants to make a hit record. He dares to dream the pimpossible dream...
...thousands of Tibetan nomads (or Khampas)-swathed in fox-lined cloaks, their necks strewn with red coral, turquoise and amber-travel for several weeks to reach Litang for a riotous few days of dancing, drinking, singing and horse racing. Most live in dreadfully inhospitable regions, cut off by heavy snow for up to eight months of the year; subsequently, this is the great highlight of the social calendar, and many meager incomes are blown on stunning silks, furs and jewels, just for the event. The Litang festival and others like it were banned during the Cultural Revolution and for many...