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...quiet ceremonies instead. But in a culture where displays of wealth are crucial, parents usually insist on grander events. One sign of this commitment to excess: it is common for parents to circulate DVDs of their children's weddings, so friends and family can view the lamb-on-a-spit from every angle. As the mother of my recently married friend put it, "Weddings are for the community, and if the laws get in the way, not having a party is not the answer...
...said of one recent and particularly inspirational trip. “All of them wanted to find Halliburton workers. And when one asked me if I was from Halliburton and I told her that no, I was just a Russian writer, she spit on the floor in front of me, and said, ‘I hate writers like you.’ That was one of the starting points, then, for the novel, and of course a scene that went into the novel.”“Absurdistan,” a story about consumption...
...happen to be in this business. It is difficult for them. I am very glad we got out. For me it's difficult to do it [make movies] when we are 3,000 miles away. It is even more difficult for women. They just chew ?em up and spit them out after they reach a certain...
...same for the leads of her 2006 movie Stranger Than Fiction. When a writer convinced her that the character played by Emma Thompson had to smoke, Doran relented, but from the way Thompson hacks her way through the film and snuffs out her cigarettes in a palmful of spit, it's clear the glamour's gone. And remember all the smoking in The Devil Wears Prada? No? That's because the producers of that film kept it out entirely--even in a story that travels from the U.S. fashion world to Paris, two of the most tobacco-happy places...
...Ingrid Maurice ’07, featured several stunning step sequences that were performed with almost military precision. The dance culminated in a riveting moment where the dancers, in a pyramid configuration, moved completely in unison to The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Spit Your Game.” The piece finished with a bang when Deborah Y. Ho ’07 was launched over the heads of her fellow dancers. The highlight of the entire performance was, without a doubt, the guest appearance by Jam’nastics. This Cambridge-based youth dance company...