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...domestic agony and spookily bad plumbing. Stressed-out single mother Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) and her five-year-old daughter, Ikuko (Rio Kanno) move into an apartment building with a serious humidity problem and a demonic elevator on loan from Poltergeist. They stick around even after a sinister water stain begins expanding on the ceiling and they learn that their building was once inhabited by a young girl who mysteriously disappeared. This lost girl happens to be the owner of the red bag that Yoshimi keeps throwing out?and that reappears each time like a drowned body bobbing back...
...Asian countries, such as Pakistan and Indonesia, marriage between close relatives is tolerated, even encouraged. The attitude is at least you know who you're getting and, if there is any wealth to share, you can keep it in the family. Most everywhere else, the practice is a social stain. Yet for increasing numbers of Chinese, the issue isn't a matter of choice-but survival. China is facing an alarming dearth of young brides. Two decades of restrictive family-planning policies have resulted in a drastic gender imbalance-the country is missing 50 million girls who would have been...
...struggle for decades with its reputation as a lily-white pedestal for the privileged. One of the few great accomplishments of former Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine’s tenure was his dogged emphasis on diversity, which succeeded in erasing much of the stain of that history and making the university a genuinely welcoming place for black students. Ironically, the highest-profile symbol of that success is the Afro-American studies department, whose “dream team”—a Rudenstine treasure—has been famous as a nexus of celebrity scholars...
...medical ban is lifted; the social stain may take longer to disappear...
...break up Susie's betrothal to Dallas, then take her on a sibling honeymoon cruise on the Queen Mary; J.J. and Sidney are a pair of schemers almost worthy of Shakespeare, as if Richard III (J.J.) were married to Lady Macbeth (Sidney, rubbing those hands to get the stain out, or spark fire). Lehman built a formicary of dark characters with weak dependents: Sidney with his secretary, J.J. with Susan, Susan with Dallas, the columnist Leo Bartha with his nagging wife, columnist Otis Elwell with a sexy cigarette girl. And he nicely establishes the final frame-up, where Susie shows...