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...his 1939 novel Ask The Dust, John Fante looked at the folks around him in Los Angeles and saw "faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colors draining fast...
...their fruit and vegetable fields. After finding out how little compensation the village committee was offering, Liujiaying villagers refused to clear their land. Within a few months, the fields were bulldozed in the middle of the night, destroying decades-old grapevines and fruit trees. Later, rows of greenhouses were torn down. Peasants who complained say they were awakened at night by bricks crashing through their windows, and that several villagers were beaten up. ("I don't know the details of this case," says a spokesman for the municipal government of Qingdao, the nearby administrative capital that oversees the village. "There...
...Waffler: Beleaguered and indecisive, this poor soul finds herself torn between one blocking group and another. With The Manipulator whispering in one ear and her other friends whispering in the other, it’s anybody’s guess where she’ll end up. At the end of it all, she’ll probably end up without a blocking group…“Sorry,” both sides will say, “we thought you were with the other group?...
...book, I suppose. Had I known this was going to happen a year after my book was going to be published, maybe I would have stretched it out a little longer. That aside, I do have a genuine respect for the institution and dislike seeing the place torn apart. That’s not good for anyone. Well, that’s not true, it’s good for the media. It’s been good for [former Crimson Managing Editor] Zach[ary M. Seward...
...London. Disaya, 27, sells her Boudoir brand in five spots around Bangkok. She describes her creations?which also include lingerie-inspired ready-to-wear clothes?as "very femme ... sexy and childish at the same time." Even though they're locally made, they're not cheap: a hand-knitted, torn-chiffon dress sells for $550. But that doesn't seem to be hurting her business?this year's plans include tripling the size of her flagship store and opening two new branches in Bangkok. "Everything is moving so fast," she says. "It's a good time to be a Thai designer...