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Party in the P.R.C. Tati's The Illusionist: DANI AllEN Staff Writer Realistic or just depressing? On June 28, 2011 two McDaniel faculty and several McDaniel students, including myself, flew to China to conduct research on a RYAN POWEll supernatural powers, and is wooed by his centuries old art called Tiehua. The following entries arc excerpts Staff Writer gift of new red shoes. She follows him to from my personal account of the things I saw and did while on this research trip. Edinburugh, and proceeds to be showered with gifts that Tatischeff can't afford-hav- June 30: Get where you want to go, everyone else be damned. Just as a brief, American frame of refer- ing to take up other secret jobs in order to ence: think about what 101 Dalmatians keep up the facade of "pulling the~ o~t The first thing I /enmed today: looks like. Now take out the dogs, put in an of thin air". Alice soon finds affection m a unsuccessful magician, replace Cruella de young, handsome lad, and poor Tatischeff, The number four is unlucky in China because the 'Chinese Ville wxh a sweet (yet egregiously ungrate- up?n discovering the~ love, hops the ;:~:: word for "four" sounds like the word for "death." Some ful) Scottish girl, and take out any concept tram to wherever, leaVIng a note that buildings in China don't have fourth floors for the same of that Disney 'Magic is real' B.S. Bleak "Magicians don't exist." . reason that some American buildings skip the 13th floor. enough for you? Good-it's supposed to A final shot of Tacischeff leaving on. a Eight is lucky because the word sounds like a be. train then all the lights in the town magic word that means "to suddenly get a toe of money." Sylvain Chomer ana Jacques Tan's 2010 sho~s music halls and theaters slowly go The first thing I dId today: animated feature The Illusionist was shown out a~ if to say ''Your childhood dreams, last week as part of the Tournees Fest, d d" and that's the end. Yup. That s We visited a one thousand-year-old Buddhist temple site. The an ongoing series of French films being ;t~eN;~