In an essay about winning the Tony which appears in "Bachelor Girls," she wrote that "having fashioned a life based on anticipated exclusion — my date left with the blond; they gave the prize to the boy; the woman in the Anne Klein suit and the legs got the job — it came as a genuine surprise, a shock, when, for the first time ever, the winner was me".
In an essay about winning the Tony which appears in "Bachelor Girls," she wrote that "having fashioned a life based on anticipated exclusion my date left with the blond; they gave the prize to the boy; the woman in the Anne Klein suit and the legs got the job it came as a genuine surprise, a shock, when, for the first time ever, the winner was me".
The bureaucratic ethic has permeated the whole of Japanese society and certainly contributed to the success of modern Japan; at the same time, it has fashioned a life of mechanical existence with dehumanizing effect.
My mother and father spent fifty years there, fashioning a life that ministered to the frequently incompatible pursuits of child rearing and artistic creation.
Disagreeing with the film's central argument that material possessions are an inherent barrier to personal identity, he pointed out: "It's important not to disparage prosperity, for it gives people opportunity and leisure and security … It's not all there is to life, but it creates the possibility of fashioning a life that has integrity and meaning".
The book is also an exploration of the trends that shape contemporary society, how they can be manipulated and how people can fashion a life in the face of such rapid change.
This novel is as stunning as it is truthful, a narrative shaped by history and love that honestly explores racism, abuse and a young woman's tenacity to fashion a life on her own terms.
In a way, it's an accidental mantra for the scene's survivors, those who have fashioned a daytime life out of all those nights, and who have found a way to mellow a bit with age, without quitting entirely.
The son of China's most famous opera singer Zhou Xinfang, he was sent to an English rural boarding school to escape Mao's cultural revolution, studied at St Martins School of Art, and fashioned a theatrical life in the restaurant trade, and then returned to painting, 50 years on, fired with the belief that creative expression will triumph.
And this all happened to an author who was coming off the blockbuster success of Sideways, an author who had suffered for years to reach that pinnacle of achievement, an author who could have, within reasonable bounds, called his own shots, and fashioned a secure life for himself.
They would be far from their families, in a city where they knew no one and could fashion a new life together.
