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...someone at this table asked you if you were a virgin, would you tell the truth...
...daughter Marina, splits her personality neatly between a shudderingly silly and endearing pre-adolescent 1980s chick in the former role ("Wow! She's, like, the cutest thing since Safari-Style Barbie!" confides the love-struck Pericles to the audience) and the more serious one of the frightened virgin Marina in the latter...
...Bring along a CD to listen to during the lunch bream to calm your nerves. May I suggest "Like a Surgeon," Weird Al Yankovic's parody of Madonna's "Like a Virgin," to motivate...
...Rich China"--but not by hiding behind tariffs and protectionism. China is his market and the font of business opportunities; the rest of the world will deliver finance, technology, professional expertise, the copy printed in his computer magazines, and even tax shelter. (Richina is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.) "I would never say this to friends," he says with uncommon modesty, "but I want to do my bit to make China an internationally recognized country. At the same time, the fact that I live in Shanghai means nothing. I live in the global village...
...wryly humorous tone of a man looking back self-indulgently on a mischievous boyhood that came out all right in the end. But the personal history he recounts includes hugely destructive vandalism, arson, murder and a descent into decades of madness. The latter encompasses visions of the Virgin Mary (Sinead O'Connor, no less) appearing to him looking like a gaudy lithograph and behaving like a seductress; of priests looming up as giant science-fiction insects; and of his town's being destroyed by The Bomb, which incidentally turns all the corpses into pigs...