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...minutes. And that's the last we see of him; he dies, off camera, soon after. We're then introduced to his son, Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), who sells watches in Taipei. Days after his father's death a young woman, Shiang-chyi (Chen Shiang-chyi), buys a dual-time watch from him before she leaves for Paris. Hsiao-kang is disturbed that his mother (Lu Yi-ching) has responded to her husband's death by praying for his return, leaving food out for him just in case. She concludes that a large white fish in their aquarium...
...inspirational features that Ackroyd and Harvey focused on was role that light played in the Gardner. Light is both a destructive force and one that allows creation. In the Gardner this dual nature of light is particularly evident. Many of the masterpieces that it houses, particularly Rembrandts’ work, are stunning examples of art’s ability to capture the ephemeral nature of light. At the same time, the museum must constantly fight to protect those same works and their many tapestries from the decay that overexposure to sun will accelerate. In Harvey and Ackroyd?...
Erik K. Frost ’02: “I’d agree that society does have a dual standard in its view of men vs. women in terms of their sexual promiscuity. BUT I don’t know that any of us can really state as fact how either gender, on a purely personal level, regrets unwanted sex more...
Toomey says he is not overwhelmed by his dual duties at the State House and City Hall...
Members of the show’s cast perform a demanding dual role: They are at once lampooning and celebrating the archetypes their characters are based on. For every ludicrously insipid comment Joey makes to Maria, for every unflattering altercation between loudmouthed members of the Gnocchi and Ravioli families, there is the appeal of a cast which genuinely rejoices at the vitality of the community it parodies...