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...rather on her amazingly expressive face to convey emotional subtlety. These moments are rare, however, and Daisy eventually becomes less a heroine than a mere whining annoyance. The film attempts to make an implicit comparison between Daisy and Anne Frank. The mere suggestion of a resemblance between Daisy's soap operas and Anne Frank's ordeal is nothing short of shameful...
...their lives--to MTV. From complete personal profiles to in-depth analyses of seminal Real World events (i.e., the firing of Montana from the After-School Program in the Boston season), Solomon and Carter dive headlong into the magic of the TV show that exists both as half-soap opera and half-documentary. Also included are fact sheets about the locales, a minute-by-minute account of a typical Real World day, snippets from the cast member's personal journals and a dictionary of Real World terms so that enthusiastic fans can even talk like their MTV heroes. Replete with...
After graduation, Jiang's first jobs were in candy and soap factories. As he climbed the company ladder, he also picked up some political posts, eventually making it to Beijing in the Ministry of Machine-Building-Industry...
...decades, Jiang worked in the boiler room of the new China, running soap and candy factories. He spent a year in Moscow learning the wonders of Soviet auto production. He made it to Beijing in 1976 as the administrator of the First Ministry of Machine-Building Industry. It was an unimpressive-sounding title, but it was his first shot, at the age of 50, at the higher ranks of Chinese politics. He was part of the team charged with transforming Shenzhen, a sleepy village across the border from Hong Kong, into one of Deng's first boomtowns, and he eventually...
...show-biz exploitation, preferring to explore the mushier travails of two really close sisters who just can't seem to land a guy. Or guys. The musical dances daintily away from the question on everyone's mind--How do Siamese twins have sex?--in favor of more palatable soap opera. Will Terry, the impresario who guides their career, overcome his queasiness and fall for Daisy? Is Buddy, who discovered them in the sideshow, the right guy for Violet, or is he just angling for a share of the concessions from the Cotton Bowl wedding they've got planned? Most crucially...