Word: asses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ass. Choke beautiful, CHOKE beautiful" were Steve Wong's description of one of the ballad's performed. I couldn't have said it better myself. ("choke beautiful" meaning "totally beautiful.") During the dance, I glanced around the packed room and there was literally a glow on the faces of the audience as they watched the slow ballad. The audience was mesmerized by the graceful, lyrical movements of the hula dancers hands, the rhythmic sways, their radiant smiles, set to the beautiful and haunting lyrics of Keali'i Reichel and a sole acoustic guitar. Later, the tempo picked up with...
...Cambridge has been a landscape of harassment disturbingly like that of the movie. A few weeks ago I was headed to the Kennedy School library to do reading. Lost in my own thoughts, I heard a man's voice scream, "nice ass!" The comment brought me up short. It seemed too vulgar--it was broad daylight on a main thoroughfare. (Also, being at Harvard has made me rusty. Such a thing is commonplace in New York, but Harvard men are almost outrageously tame and generally keep ribaldry to a tolerable level.) I couldn't imagine who would say such...
...when Clinton looked out into the crowd he saw the same White House Press Corps, asking the same old questions. He was the same ladies' man in a jam, just a different setting. Which of course happened to another cat some years ago: Shaft in Africa (1973). Ass-whoopin', crime solvin' and woman gettin' brought to you by the "black private dick who's a sex machine with all the chicks" -- or so the song says. Can you dig it? OK, so it's no original Shaft, but it's still the man vs. The Man -- so check...
...point, which as the novel progresses comes across more and more as a cartoonish attempt at profundity. While he does touch on themes that ring painfully true regarding modern views on death, technology, loneliness and lack of purpose, too often he mixes them with banal platitudes or smart-ass witticisms that reduce his ideas to the absurd...
...throw off attempted rapists--because, really, what else can you do with a subject all too real and close? I watched as women whom you couldn't picture harming a kitten giggled nervously, fidgeted in their dress shoes, talked themselves down--and then proceeded to kick ass again and again, loving it all the while. And Abby and I wondered, talking such things over after class, why and whether RAD should exist at all and what it means that it does...