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...Spanning decades of political history, “Inheritance” also presents the far more personal story of two sisters. These two sisters, Junan and Yinan, grow up together during China’s Cultural Revolution. The elder, Junan, is more practical and less emotional than the younger Yinan. As their story progresses from childhood to adulthood, and as Yinan and her sister’s husband Ling begin an affair, Chang dramatically juxtaposes their own family troubles with China’s political foibles. The story is told by Junan’s daughter Hong, who assumes...
...Land. If Mangold's new movie has a problem, it's that he and co-screenwriter Gill Dennis sometimes walk the lines of the inspirational biography too rigorously. John's father, Ray Cash (Robert Patrick), is a one-note ogre who blames John for surviving his more adored younger brother, and whose condemnation of the singer lasts way longer than is dramatically necessary...
...testing her mettle in all kinds of sports while growing up with the neighborhood boys—“baseball, tackle football, basketball,” she says—hoops remained a second thought.“If you’d asked me when I was younger what I would do,” Holsey says, “I probably would have said I’d play soccer.”But there was little denying her early basketball talent. In one of her first junior recreational YMCA games for an otherwise all-boy team...
...finishing the game,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91, “whether that means playing aggressively, with more intelligence, or staying out of the box.“I think certainly our inexperience in the fact that we have a lot of younger players is part of it,” he added, “but it is something we need to improve on if we want to establish ourselves.”And when the trailing team mounts a last-ditch charge, the Crimson can’t stop moving forward...
...without concern for hipster opinion, but their current approach to music is simply too boring. From a naturalistic perspective, the evening was hopeful if not fully satisfying. It confirmed the life cycle of one of the rarest breeds of mammal, the innovative indie success: creativity declines with age, but younger acts will always be there to pick up the torch.—Staff Writer Eric L. Fritz can be reached at efritz@fas.harvard.edu