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Sixth Generation films, with their flat, generic titles (The Days, Postman, Platform), are about ordinary people: sufferers and inflicters of suffering, men of the street and ladies of the evening. There is little facial or verbal inflection, and few dramatic gestures, unless someone is smoking (and in Chinese films, everybody smokes, all the time). All these movies drop one big hint: in a totalitarian society, where anyone may be a government snitch, it's best to keep one's feelings and agenda hidden. To speak up, to shout or plead, is to be noticed; to be noticed is to risk...
Stone, a singer-songwriter who has worked with Lenny Kravitz, D'Angelo and Mary J. Blige, also sings the praises of Kubota, whom she has known for three years. "Toshi Kubota is a talent to be reckoned with. None of us would work with anybody unless we felt that they were truly talented...
...long as your Internet connection remains live, so will the radio broadcast. There can be disruptions due to Net congestion, which chops up the signal like old-fashioned static, and, if you're loading another page or working on a document, the stream may pause for a few seconds. Unless you hook up quality speakers, the sound coming from your computer will be a bit tinny, but in my book that's all part of the radio experience. Sometimes links won't work, but what's inaccessible one day is up and running the next. Just when RUV was playing...
...what's an expat who wants to go back to do? Very little, I suspect--unless the housing market crashes completely, which is unlikely. What's more, in the interest of full disclosure, I must confess that my story, like San Francisco's, has changed. I have also grown up and, in spite of my youthful protestations, acquired a taste for a more comfortable life. Even if by magic I could return to San Francisco and live on a pittance in a ramshackle flat--even one with a fabulous "vu"--I'm not so sure I would jump...
Census 2000 didn't ask for these details, and unless I missed it, did not include an essay portion. But after years of research, the Census Bureau, by introducing its Check All That Apply option, did advance its stated belief that race is not a static concept. Critics of CATA see it variously as a threat to social justice in its perceived dilution of nonwhite constituencies, or as race obsessed, or as a flaccid nod to the burgeoning ranks of mixed-race Americans. But I think the Census people were savvy. Or, really, credit goes to their overseeing agency...