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...only watch helplessly as Xiu Xiu falls victim to a waning revolution and its callous participants. Director Joan Chen proves her stuff in depicting the transformation of a young girl into a desperate manipulator trying to sleep her way out of Tibet. This is not a trite teen angst movie from Hollywood, but an examination of walking the fine line of womanhood to survive. We do not feel pity, but rather, we experience a slice of the disillusionment felt by the youth of the Cultural Revolution (such as Joan Chen herself...
...first Jack seems a bit trite because of his fabled old Western dialect of cute truisms and botched verbs, his "aw-shucks" likeability and his emphasis on his honest-to-God credibility. I was a bit critical about what might have been merely a tall-tale spun by a clever snake oil salesman, posing as a nice guy who had many incredible experiences. But the more I read, the more I was convinced of his absolute sincerity because of how human and tangible a character he really is. I thought I was listening to a storyteller speak rather than reading...
Unfortunately, Englander has a tendency to overstate the sufferings of the Jewish people. Though he writes stories which are genuinely and interestingly sad, the author often insists on adding a manipulative twist, making the occasional phrase sound whiny and trite. While his stories are always engaging, holding attention up to the last moment, Englander's endings are often abrupt and unsatisfying...
Even when Robert Kiely has packed his family's bags--a new book on his life's work due out in the next few months will keep him busy--it is far from trite to suggest he will be impossible to forget...
...eagerly picked up your magazine this week to get some insight regarding succeeding in the digital age from the greatest digital visionary of the 20th century. Imagine my disappointment when I read the trite suggestions that Gates came up with. Insist on e-mail? Study sales data online? My four-year-old nephew could have come up with such gems while watching Barney on the boob tube. Who is Gates' target audience for these pearls of wisdom? SANJAY THOMAS Ottawa...