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Living conditions in these are basic at best - a one-room family-house with a tiny shed-like kitchen-conversion and often no private toilet - but it is this unusual mix of ancient aristocratic architecture and current-day, salt-of-the-earth locals that gives the hutong alleys their unique character.
BBC: Old Beijing at its timeless best
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Slumped, pitted, cratered, they seem to preserve the primal character of the earth from which they're made.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | The Subtle Magic of Koetsu
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As Dolly, Laurie has been saddled with too many saintly attributes, but she makes her character an ethereal earth mother, giving her the weight to carry her head-in-the-clouds lines, and delivers a remarkable performance.
NEWYORKER: The Grass Harp
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But Smith, who teams with his son Jaden in this summer's sci-fi epic "After Earth, " tells EW that he turned down the part because his character would've been second fiddle to the bounty hunter (played by Christoph Waltz) who teaches Django his trade.
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