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...Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger.” Enthusiastic reception notwithstanding, however, the “local color” in which these books traffic reduces perceptions of the region to little more than cartoonish, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding??-esque stereotypes.Harsh? Perhaps. Yet the breach between the possibilities for “diaspora” fiction and the lackluster reality is disappointingly vast. To pull a book from the shelf at random, take Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie’s 2002 “Salt and Saffron...
Although Nair’s films—from “Salaam Bombay!” to “Monsoon Wedding??—have garnered widespread acclaim from the media, she is a populist at heart, playing more to the audience here than to the critics. This is not a bad thing; although some might find the constant swelling of tympanis and the inconsistent quality of the digital effects to be grating and cheesy, these are forgivable and do not detract from the meaning or pleasure of the movie. Nair’s affinity...
...will work as an Edward Jones financial advisor. The couple plans to wed on June 6 of next year, but have yet to decide if they will be married in Massachusetts or in Texas. Donahue said it will likely be a “kind of weird wedding?? with multiple flower girls, male bridesmaids, and lots of bright colors. The pair described themselves as very affectionate and recalled one instance in which they were “clingy” while riding the T together. When Mancuso got off before Donahue, both said, “I love...
...change for TEATRO!, the Spanish-language drama company that Harvard students founded this year. The group’s first play was more canonical and far more serious: Federico García Lorca’s tragedy “Bodas de sangre” (“Blood Wedding??).“We thought we’d start with a foundational text in Spanish theatre,” TEATRO! founder Julie Ann Crommett ’08 explains. “With ‘Tres sombreros’ we wanted to do something that...
...Squid and the Whale” and relishes in the same amount of narrative asides. Broken bits of subplot protrude from the greater story arc, and the main narrative is peppered with inconsequential and unexplored footnotes. If it were more focused, “Margot at the Wedding?? could have been Baumbach’s dramatic triumph. However, it’s marred by unnecessary flourishes from a still-immature writer’s pen. The film is ultimately a beautiful but fractured anecdote of a film, and not much more. In the titular role, Nicole Kidman plays...