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Moreover, there are positive role models for Asian men. In traditional Chinese thinking, learning and negotiation were the preferred paths to true manhood. More modern roles can be found in characters like "My Grandfather" in Red Sorghum or Wittman Ah Sing in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey and in the work of writers like David Mura, Gus Lee and David Wong Louie. They are not always the heroes we would like them to be, but they are appealing, active, sexual, powerful people...
...child, but Hindu characters, Sikh characters, Muslim characters are pivotal to the story. I would not like to be seen just as a Parsi writer. For example, in The Crow-eaters, the characters are all Parsi. But all my friends in India and Pakistan who are not Parsi say, "Ah, we know who you have written about. You have written about my mother-in-law." So you see I don't think it means anything if a character is a parsi or a Christian or Hindu. They are human beings primarily and they relate to the reader as a human...
...Ah, and about that much-maligned offensive creation from the mastermind of Joe Restic. Clearly, Giardi has become the definitive product of the revolutionary creature known as the Multi-flex, but he can recall his initial horror upon first reading the playbook...
...Newsweek laments. But in this age, who's got a better shot at changing the world: one more addition to a horde of hungry litigators, or a writer whose vignette for "The Simpsons" will be watched and repeated by millions? "Someone has to entertain America," declared one Harvard man. Ah, duty...
...exhibit is a juried show featuring the work of 42 artists from Boston as well as other parts of New England. Painter Natalie Alper, sculptor Ah John Keys and the BCA's Exhibitions Manager Carole Anne Meehan curated the show; their combined vision and expertise makes for a show that is colorful and intimate as well as quite extensive in its scope...