Word: turning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before shooting Beijing Bastards, Zhang knew that the first film to capture the lifestyles of China's contemporary Rock and Roll stars would be censored. His desire to document the society in which he lived--not the one in which the State wanted him to live--forced him to turn to friends and foreign corporations for money. Unlike many of China's other young directors, Zhang does not censor his own ideas to win State approval for his films. Consequently, only his first film, Mama (1990) has been released in China to date, although pirated Video Compact Discs (VCDs...
...their disquieting force cause viewers to question their personal and societal conditions or wallow in the pain? Zhang may finally get his answer when Crazy English and Seventeen Years open to Chinese audiences later this year. Like A Lan in East Palace West Palace, Zhang will finally get to turn the table on both the State and his compatriots: "You've asked me a lot of questions. Now why don't you ask yourself...
...wife duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss, a.k.a. Quasi. The pair opened the evening with a blast of optimism in the form of "Smile," in which Sam and Janet start off with sugary harmonies over a bouncing beat. Then the lyrics begin to take hold and things turn sour in a hurry. "You lost your health/Never had no wealth/So tighten up your belt/As you gather dust on some self." Coomes has gained a reputation among indie-pop circles for writing nihilistic lyrics that make the script for "Fight Club" read like a kids' book. The song concludes with...
Stephen N. Smith '02, a council representative from Adams House, says he thinks it's a mistake to expect students to foot the additional costs of student groups on campus without the College kicking in funds in turn...
...film has its own logic: Incidents turn on luck and silly circumstances, and in the back of your mind you suspect they couldn't have really happened. The train escapes several close calls because of a German uniform hastily tailored to a higher rank, or by the outrageous claim that their train is special because it is deporting extra-dangerous communist Jews. These are examples of the whimsical and creative view Train of Life takes on practically every aspect of the shtetl's endeavor...