Word: stuff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Unifying the three tales is the theme of unrealized aspirations, forcing the protagonists to re-evaluate their everyday existences. Illustrated in three distinct styles, from Disney pastiche to childish simplicity and monochromatic detachment, this is poignant stuff. The Eternal Smile lacks the focus and anger that dripped from the pages of American Born Chinese, but like that work it stresses the importance of confronting reality - ironic, when comics and graphic novels are often labeled as fantasy by their detractors...
...away from the let-it-rip form of capitalism that has guided it for almost 30 years and toward more overt government control and regulation of huge swaths of the economy. No one yet can safely say whether this is wise, but in the U.S. it is certainly the stuff of increasingly fierce debate. No such doubts are evident in China, where the government reacted to the crisis with alacrity and the economy is now responding in kind...
...well," she says. "When my daughter went to America to study, he called to ask, 'Madam, is your daughter not home? You haven't been ordering cheese singles!' If I run out of shampoo or detergent, I can just phone him, and he'll send a boy with the stuff, free of charge...
...going to be barraged by new financial products from up above on Wall Street. They won't know what hit them. So I think unless there is some sort of regulatory body that is going to play chess with Wall Street, a complimentary body that filters this stuff on the wholesale level before it becomes the consumer stuff, whoever is on that consumer-safety commission is going to get completely swamped...
Says Tremblay: "There is that competition of who is going to do the worst stuff - for them, it's the best stuff - like stealing the biggest or best...