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...about 18 months. "I'm not an everyday writer, and I never have been. I have continued a pattern of intermittent, very intense effort, and that's the way I still do it." Routine is key. He eats the same lunch every day: while writing Rising Sun, it was buckwheat noodles; during Congo, mashed potatoes, gravy and an open-face turkey sandwich; for The Great Train Robbery, heavily peppered tuna sandwiches...
Shrewdly, Whistler kept just enough American quirks to make him look exotic to Europeans--while speaking to other Americans in a Franco-British accent. He liked buckwheat cakes and green corn, sweet potatoes and American cocktails; he had a flat American straw hat and a specimen of American invention, a horn gramophone, on which he would play Fourth of July orations to mystified French guests...
Major record labels are starting to take notice. Musicians like Landreth, Wayne Toups and Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural have been marketed beyond the "roots music" category, and Cajun-Zydeco festivals and clubs have sprung up on both coasts. The Cajun-Zydeco sound has influenced mainstream artists as well. Paul Simon's homage to Zydeco and its late "king,'' Clifton Chenier, That Was Your Mother, was one of the highlights of his multimillion-selling Graceland album. Country chanteuse Mary Chapin Carpenter won a Grammy in 1992 for Down at the Twist and Shout, her foot-stompin' tribute to Cajun music in general...
While Martin Yan is a valuable member of Asian American society, he is yet another media image of the exotic Asian. Asking the Asian equivalent of Buckwheat to give an hour-long demonstration of Chinese cooking and Tai-Chi does nothing for campus race relations. In fact, it perpetuates the stereotypes the Foundation aims to eliminate...
...Peter Kostishack '96 said, "It brought out the natural fiber-wearing, buckwheat pancake- eating, protest-attending, equal rights-advocating, star-gazing, nature-walking, sensitive...