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China's film bureaucracy is notoriously stubborn. But Zhang, who as a young man sold his blood to buy his first camera, is determined to keep making films at home. "I don't think I could go on with my work abroad," he says. "Where could I find a place overseas that looks like the Chinese countryside?" That is the capping irony: China never looked more ravishing than it does through Zhang's camera eye. The censors never looked more myopic than when they suppressed and orphaned the most intelligently gorgeous film since The Last Emperor...
...suitor, Arnolphe (Jona Sacks) whose efforts to marry the lovely young Agnes (Carolyn Rendell) are bested by Horace (Chris Javornik), the handsome charmer whom Agnes adores. Unfortunately, Horace does not know that he and Arnolphe share a common interest, and he unwittingly confides in his wealthy opponent. Arnolphe, stubborn in tradition and beliefs, sequesters Agnes and attempts to sabotage Horace's plans...
...honest discussion before the onset of Desert Storm, the legislative branch lapsed into silence (except for a plethora of inane support-the-war, ensure-our-reelection resolutions) for the remainder of the conflict. Bush's occasional trespasses of his constitutional executive prerogatives were understandable in light of Congress' stubborn refusals to address an issue of war and peace...
...speech for council chair earlier this semester, Rhew recounted a tale of a turtle climbing up a set of stairs. The turtle, he said, got tired and couldn't go any further. "Don't let the UC be that stubborn old turtle," Rhew told the council. "It's time to take a breath of fresh...
...pornographic Holocaust novel. But elsewhere, readers may find themselves close to tears. Looking at the magnetic-resonance images of the growth that is killing his father, Roth thinks, "This was the tissue that had manufactured his set of endless worries and sustained for more than eight decades his stubborn self-discipline, the source of everything that had so frustrated me as his adolescent son." And also powered Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint...