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...romantics of the Sixth Generation renounce glamour. They eschew the star quality that marks Hollywood and Hong Kong; indeed, they often do without professional actors. Their films look less like paintings than placards. No stately settings, no echoes of the fine arts, no images that pop your eyes in wonder. The very notion of masterpiece-making seems dilettantish to the rebels of the sixth form. Here are film kids in revolt?against the government, of course, but also against their sanctified big brothers. Speaking of the Fifth Generation, Zhang Yuan has said, "They had a slogan: 'Not like the past...
...wonder the "heroes" of these films are often silent, sullen resisters. The title character of Jia's quietly powerful Xiao Wu is a thief with scruples: he won't give in to the system. He is spurned by an old gangster friend, harassed by the police, cursed by his father ("I should have drowned you in the urinal when you were born"). Finally, arrested for pickpocketing, he is hand-cuffed in a public square and left to be stared at. He is a zoo creature, behind the bars of the people's opprobrium. Jia would work on a larger canvas...
Jeanne Boylan was working in a small Oregon sheriff's office in 1973 when she began to wonder why the police sketches she saw didn't match descriptions she had heard from the victims. There's a better way, she thought. And there was. Today Boylan, 47, is acclaimed for developing a technique so accurate that an FBI agent who has worked with her likens the results to "something drawn from a photograph." Among her creations: the iconic portrait of the Unabomber - a dead ringer for a young Ted Kaczynski, as well as the near mirror-image drawing of Polly...
Every niche reveals a new wonder. Pull the undercarriage of the bus, and out rolls an electric barbecue and another television set, designed for the chef who can grill steaks and watch Survivor II. With a 165-gal. tank of freshwater and other tanks for waste, as well as a powerful generator for light, heat or air conditioning, a bus can camp for a week without needing outside power...
...blackness: love of watermelon, fried foods and well-told stories that may not reside solely in the land of fact. Unconditional love for Stevie Wonder. Half-moons under my fingernails. Rhythm. A fondness for cities, for picking bones clean. A collectivist rather than colonialist view of the world. A behind of consequence. My father...