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...“financing curse”, as Shirley Ze Yu writes in an London School of Economics blog....
...We wander through an abandoned forecourt, an underground car park, the red light district and a children’s play-park, all casually inhabited by the kinds of citizens who routinely engage with or ignore the...
...It’s a bizarre week in the Christmas run-up when the two best new films are sobering documentaries about countries drunk on autocracy (see Citizen K)....
...The Connection (Shirley Clarke, 1961, US) A group of heroin addicts await their dealer in a rundown New York loft as a documentary crew looks on....
...Ingo Krügler’s costumes place the action vaguely in the 1960s, a GDR world of robotic citizens....
...After first telling citizens they had nothing to fear, they later sent in heavily equipped military personnel to secure the site....
...society — that is to say, if literature has a role in the making of a citizen”....
...Shirley and Porkpie sit in a pub, discussing Desmond’s ill health. “None of us expected to die here,” she tells him. “We always thought we would go home to die....
...The dazed, dusty citizens who wander through the ruins will later give way to half-crazed soldiers, bloodied and high, letting off tension by torturing suspects....
...Both Landestheater intendant Rainer Mennicken and the responsible politicians seem united in a determination to prove to the citizens of Linz that the new house will be a place for everyone, not an elitist...
...meticulously-made production places the piece firmly in its context; in every scene we feel the currents that were surging through Italian society in the mid-19th century, and the role that theatre played for citizens...
...The citizens of Lisbon clearly feel that music is not an area where they can afford to save....
...Domestic travel by Chinese citizens shot up during the first three days of the current lunar New Year holiday, demonstrating continued consumer confidence in China despite the slight economic slowdown....
...The 1970s Labour cabinet even had a secretary of state for prices and consumer protection, a job initially held by Shirley Williams, whose scatty-mumsy political style was perfect for the role....
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen...
...’s colonial citizens....
...Additional reporting by Patti Waldmeir and Shirley Chen in Shanghai...
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen in Shanghai and Eliot Gao in Beijing...
...“Rio Tinto reiterates its hope for a transparent and expeditious process for its employees,” it said. Additional reporting by Patti Waldmeir and Shirley Chen in Shanghai...
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen....
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen in Shanghai...
...Heike Scheele’s sets are dominated by a giant net curtain hung in a cylinder....
...The way these questions are answered could prove a telling test of the complicated relationship that links law, business and wealth in modern China. Additional reporting by Shirley Chen...
...With additional reporting by Shirley Chen in Shanghai...
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen in Shanghai....
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