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...memory,” Xing said in an interview through an interpreter. In one particularly graphic scene, a woman describes finding her headmaster disemboweled and beaten to death behind the schoolhouse. Later in the film, a man recounts his mother’s shooting, using his own chest to trace the path the bullet took. Merle Goldman, a professor emerita at Boston University and a research associate at the Fairbank Center, said she sponsored the viewing because it is the first Chinese movie she had seen about the Cultural Revolution. “In China, it?...
...suddenly remembered that all those bodies I maneuvered past had feet, and all the female feet wore nail polish. No woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar...
...hour is late; our troubles are getting worse; our enemies watch," McCain declared. "We have to act immediately. We have to change direction now. We have to fight." True, when it came to his own campaign effort, he tried for a trace of bravado, saying, "We're 6 points down. The national media has written us off ... My friends, we've got them just where we want them...
...markets have devoured last week's passage of the titanic $700 billion bailout package without a trace. By the end of Tuesday, the Dow had dropped 1,400 points in five days, the biggest point loss ever. As increasingly gloomy job numbers pile on top of the continuing problems in the credit market, it seems the U.S. government may be running out of economic hash to sling...
...once-over would divulge to the audience that Chris Farley’s brother was playing the role of fat, angry, and ultraliberal “Michael Malone,” who is joined in his onscreen shenanigans by stars like Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, James Woods, John Voight, Trace Adkins, and Bill O’Reilly. Before you ask, “Why O’Reilly?,” it’s important to understand something about each of the people in the above list: they all love the GOP. Woods, Grammer, and Voight were big fans...