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...says. Free to get rich, if they can. Free to focus on family matters, village problems, the immediate society, without interference from the government or the party. But Tuonan township is not ready to stretch its new thinking to national politics. Li Dongju credits her achievements to Deng's "wise opening," and she resents it when outsiders say China's ways are all bad. If there is a rising tide of nationalism, it lies less in dreams of hegemony than in anger at the patronizing demands of the West. "We are very proud of China and of being Chinese...
...make sure we do everything legally," says Rusa Won, rolling her eyes as she ticks off the police inspectors and health inspectors and fire inspectors and bureaucrats who come regularly to check compliance. Rusa Won regards dealing with such matters as part of the experience necessary in the street-wise world of Guangzhou. "You learn who gives a sweet smile and who gives a phony smile," she says. "You learn how to manage employees, take care of customers...
FACETIOUSNESS. Jokiness is the current handmaiden of brutality. Violent death provides the punch line for the two-hour string of gags that is the modern action movie. And when the stars aren't killing off the supporting players, they are cracking wise--lamely. All right, nobody goes to hear an action movie, but the verbal humor in The Lost World didn't have to be so stilted. In Con Air and Batman & Robin the lines have the rhythm of wit but not the content; they are their own rim shots...
Studios would be wise to lure more foreign directors like Woo, who knows how to transform summer's dumb-and-dumber product into a gnarly, white-knuckle action film for all seasons...
...repeated backward-flop trust exercises) with her therapist, a slightly sleazy charmer named Anton. What follows melds The Bobbsey Twins with On the Road. Mom drags the girls across the U.S. to meet her lover at Esalen, the California therapy spa, borrowing gas money from Kate, the sort of wise child who always has some. Then with Anton, his five children and a couple of hippy hitchhikers, they cross the country again in a large turquoise camper, all of them smoking pot and drinking wine, the kids practicing sarcasm, and everyone quarreling...