Word: chinaman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relentlessly ironic lounge song about himself, his song and her. If there is something to frustrate the audience in this play--and there is much that is on the border between challenging originality and frustrating whimsy--it is his character. The self-conscious Other (he is a self-described "Chinaman" seeking to break stereotypes about homeless people), he mischievously implies with a quavering song that he is in on all the play's tricks, and we desperately wish he would tell...
...white, he says, because "neutral-colored walls go with any colors in the paintings." But the curators insisted on stronger tones. The dispute grew so acrimonious that one curator is reported by several observers to have referred repeatedly to Pei, behind his back, as "that slant-eyed little Chinaman...
...They have to yell at you to make you do something and I couldn't understand why," he said. "I was called once 'Chinaman' by my instructors. I wasn't expecting that when I joined the Marine Corps...