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Despite the Forster references, “On Beauty” could have been titled “On Harvard.” Smith names her extra-Boston Ivy “Wellington,” but it’s a see-through disguise for a school with blustery winters, dramatic faculty meetings, and a Black Studies Department nursing a beef with the administration...
...Harvard didn’t leave a mark on Smith’s Wellington, it did shape the novel’s trajectory. She quotes Professor of English Elaine Scarry’s essay “On Beauty and Being Just” in a section opener: “A University is among the precious things that can be destroyed...
...things on which they agree. Kiki’s blood-and-flesh good sense overwhelms her husband’s tendencies toward the theoretical flourishes that plague academia’s brightest minds—in the fictional Wellington, of course...
...same day," she's sent through a passport photo of herself - though when she turns up, hair cascading over a tracksuit top and jeans, there's no mistaking her unbridled energy. In 1974, when Urale was five, her parents moved the family from their small village of Fagamalo to Wellington, in search of a better education for their six kids. "All Pacific Islanders' dream was to go to these places," she recalls, "where they thought the footpaths were paved with gold." Some migrants would find both more and less than they expected; others would arrive at a creative life, where...
After graduating in 1994, Urale moved back to Wellington to shoot O Tamaiti (1996). A 15-min. short filmed in black and white and with barely a word of dialogue, it showed cinema's ability to shift perceptions, if not mountains. Innovatively shot from the perspective of an 11-year-old Samoan boy called Tino, as he struggles to bring up his five siblings on a housing estate while his parents are busy making money and more babies, O Tamaiti (The Children) took out the coveted Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a first for a Pacific Islander director...