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...ferocious rainstorm; the night before it is scheduled to be closed, a grand old Taipei theater is showing the landmark 1966 kung fu film Dragon Inn to a scattered handful of ghostlike characters, including a young Japanese tourist (Mitamura Kiyonobu) apparently cruising for gay men. The crippled, young ticket taker (Chen Shiang-chyi) stalks the venue in search of the mysterious projectionist (Lee Kang-sheng)?perhaps she's in love with him, or maybe he just forgot to return her Jay Chou CD. Narrative details aren't Tsai's concern; he wants to make the audience work for their cinematic...
...Yale in the '60s and '70s under literary giants Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, he says he led a double life as a heroin junkie and gambling addict before cleaning up and becoming a writer for Hill Street Blues. Addicts and gamblers, says Milch, have a "risk taker" personality--just like prospectors, which is why so few of them got rich and so many saloonkeepers did. Says director-producer Davis Guggenheim: Milch has "something most people with intellect don't have--very colorful life experiences...
After hugging the ticket-taker and saying his general hellos to the extended contra family, Newman shows his novice crew the ropes. Layers fly off as the group ties on their leather dancing shoes and heads out to the expansive sixties-era social hall...
...topic (see chart for an example). Historically, the SAT has had only multiple-choice items. As Lemann writes of the early rationale for the SAT, "Tests that require a student to write essays ... are highly susceptible to the subjective judgment of the grader and to the mood of the taker on the day of the test, so they have low reliability...
...colleges took a trial version of the test, called the Rainbow Project, in 2001. Teams of judges scored the creative portions for humor and originality. The raters graded the practical sections on the basis of conformity to social norms. The more closely students' responses matched the average test taker's, the higher their scores...