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...Quemoy archipelago, which was a point of conflict between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan during the Cold War. This confrontation almost led the United States to use nuclear force against China on two separate occasions. Szonyi is currently working on a book that compares villagers?? perspectives in Quemoy with villagers in mainland China who live in the area across from the islands. His most recent trip to China yielded interviews with villagers in the mainland who told stories similar to those of the villagers in Quemoy, showing that despite their different ideologies...
Yunus noted the villagers?? gratitude, and after facing resistance from bankers in Bangladesh who refused to loan money to the poor, Yunus decided to start Grameen Bank...
...list of accusations runs long. The production team ordered a couple to bring farm animals into their house, covering it with manure; they tied a dildo—unidentifiable to the villagers??to the arm stump of an old man; and they portrayed the community as urine-drinking savages. Pay ranged from five to 38 dollars a day; they took the money because they were poor and had no idea how their actions would be used...
...with deceptively uncomplicated set-ups. In a brilliant artistic decision, no attempt is made to create the ungainly rhinoceros costumes that have weakened past renditions; instead, each newly transformed villager simply opens a red umbrella. It is a quiet, visually appealing, and deeply unsettling representation of the villagers?? transformations...
...neighbors along with the good. When Ruttledge and Kate are called upon by John Quinn, the local womanizer always looking for chances to “get into the boggy hollow,” they are obliged to welcome him just as they would their best friends. The villagers??wry, patient sense of humor makes such a mix of people endurable; gossip makes them interesting. Jamesie is guilessly fascinated by the details of other people’s lives. But his wife recognizes that the importance of knowing other people runs far deeper than entertainment...
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