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...book tells the story of two siblings' struggles through the turmoil of the Mao era and the country's transformation under Deng Xiaoping. The coarse, shameless Baldy and his handsome, trustworthy stepbrother Song Gang grow up poor during the Cultural Revolution. They watch as their father is persecuted to death and their mother debilitated with grief. They are orphaned as teenagers and a battle for survival bonds the boys together. But once China adopts capitalism in the 1980s, their paths diverge. The wily Baldy becomes an entrepreneur; Song Gang languishes as a worker in a state-owned factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh Brother | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

Obama, Barack • effort of to shame the shameless • lack of enthusiasm of al-Qaeda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...series began its endgame.) That would not be interesting for long if it weren't for the fact that Mackey was also a very good cop. He nails criminals other police couldn't get--albeit using shady deals and the occasional beatdown with a steel chain. He's a shameless racist, yet he lives to take down crooks who prey on one of L.A.'s poorest and brownest neighborhoods. He's a brutal thug and a loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fitting End for The Shield | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...torero ole-ing that characterizes the nation's more well-known southern coast. As Barlow writes it, Galicia is a misty, mysterious place full of cagey old coots and rustic food fanatics. What better place, then, to embark on a semi-ridiculous, typically male journey. With good humor and shameless enthusiasm, he has written a delicious meat mash note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Eat a Whole Spanish Hog | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...Shmuel may be only eight years old, but that is well past the age of reason, and they are caught up in situation that would force anyone to acquire a shrewdness well in advance of their years. I don't know if a movie as simpleminded and emotionally shameless as this one definitively proves that fiction is not a suitable vehicle for the consideration of crimes as vast as the Holocaust. But it will do until the next historical travesty comes along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Failed Holocaust Fable | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

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