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...about the setbacks she has suffered since arriving in Beijing. Nonetheless, when opportunities come calling, she is nothing but youthful gratitude: "I gave him my ID number, my Young Pioneers Cinema number, my mobile phone number, my home number and my next-door neighbor's phone number." Guo's tender portrayal of one of youth's abiding contradictions - its simultaneous scorn and passionate appetite for the world - is one of the novel's pleasures. Apart from Fenfang's genuine love of food, this is what the ravenousness of the title is about...
...marble floors, the stone balustrades, the gilt frames, Filippo—all but The Stable Boy dissolved into a ripe sun, a voluptuous ribbon of billowing moor, a stable floor strewn with hay that could not mask the brutal hardness of wood. She felt the splinters scraping her tender back as though it had been yesterday.And he was here in Italy. She knew it with as much certainty as if the painted figure before her were not oils hardened into ridges upon a canvas, but flesh equally hardened by athletic prowess. It was as though a vital, palpitating ghost inhabited...
...Stop Kiss.” Though the title might lead an audience to assume that the plot revolves around the moment when the main characters, Sara (Christina L. Elmore ’09) and Callie (Rachel E. Flynn ’09), finally share that tender moment, it is far from being the pivotal point of this personal and poignant script. The show—which will have three more performances this Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 pm in the Loeb Experimental Theater—instead focuses on the apprehension and complications involved with any unexpected romance...
...elegant head as she sat in one of the little passenger cars. He glanced at her again—not because she was very beautiful, not because of the modest grace that could be seen in her whole figure, but because there was something especially gentle and tender in the cleavage exposed by the low neckline of her dress. It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her bodice that it expressed itself beyond her will.An Italian costumed as a station master was looking in the same direction as Filippo. With a wink, he gestured at Felicity?...
...money is on the screen, and so are his prickliness and passion. Tender, angry, unafraid of mixing comedy and sentiment, Lee's pictures bulge with so many ideas, they're hard to contain. Sometimes he holds them together through sheer nerve, as in the loopy racial satire Bamboozled; in other films, like Do the Right Thing, the story eventually explodes in the moviegoer's face. All the audience can expect is to be lectured, hassled and entertained...