Word: taling
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...years ago, I covered village elections in China, where the victors - farmers in Mao suits with dirty fingernails - were barred from taking office by the incumbents and eventually jailed on trumped-up charges. One man was so harassed that he committed suicide. This doesn't sound like a heartwarming tale of democracy's triumph. But what has evolved in these villages - despite all the injustice - is a dawning sense that people, even poor people, have rights. In societies cowering under oppression, such a realization is revolutionary...
...roiling, overheated emotion of the female protagonists. Tadashi, amusingly, does not neglect to insert his own opinions into the other narratives, in the form of slightly snide footnotes and cross-references to previously mentioned information.Boyle clearly has a gift for the compelling. As the self-appointed narrator of this tale, Tadashi illustrates the life of the so-called apprentices who sign up to learn from Wright at Taliesin (both his home and studio) and instead find themselves relegated to washing dishes, peeling potatoes, and working in the fields. Tadashi remains deeply devoted to Wright, despite his awareness of the man?...
...monster: Frankenstein. Two years later, she was convincingly Californian in Paul Schrader's oneiric docudrama about Patty Hearst - another nightmare role that she approached with the passion and, especially, the precision of a mature actress. She was also exemplary as the star of the 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale, from Margaret Atwood's novel (and Harold Pinter's screenplay), in which she plays a lonely, stubborn rebel in a brutal, sterile future society...
...wall. After a year of scabies, long walks to Annenberg, and gazing at a parking-lot vista from my common room window, the prospect of river views and convenient access to the Square was tantalizing. The Union dormite-to-Quadling story is equivalent to a rags-to-new-rags tale. Friends who had been placed in a dumpy river House insisted I was welcome to move in with them. They jest, I thought. Inspired by the likes of Oprah and the Pope, I spent the summer contemplating the positives of Quaddage. I recalled my tour of Pforzheimer House on that...
Secretly, society has a fascination with the enigmatic, dynamic, and unreported events of the all-boy prep school. The HRDC’s newest drama, “The History Boys,” rips this mystery wide-open with a witty, yet tense, tale of eight English schoolboys as they prepare for their college entrance exams. As “Oxbridge candidates,” they must face the reality of adulthood, while their flavorful, poetical English professor Mr. Hector fights to protect the boys’ playful youth.Ostensibly, Hector (Ilan J. Caplan ’10) parallels...