Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage by hooking up electric eels; Wong Chop, a Chinatown connection; and, inevitably, a girl named Jane...
...residents and more than 7,000 free-floating illegals) had a long-established internal drug trade; easy Common Market border rules made Amsterdam the perfect hub for Europe-wide smuggling. In 1971 gangsters from triads (secret societies) in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore began infiltrating Amsterdam's Chinatown, forcing merchants and community leaders to help shield their operations. Ironically, many of the operators were corrupt drug cops purged from the Hong Kong police force...
...WAITING, his red BMW parked in the dark outside Lowell House. He wasn't too pleased by my lateness and was non-plussed by my offering of a warm bottle of beer. TK was even later, coming up the drive in bow tie after early morning oysters in Chinatown. But soon we were all tucked in and off through the lifting gray of Central Square on what was to be our last attempt at summer...
...Karnes's contention is clearly not the case in reality. That the government does recognize Asian Americans as affected by Affirmative Action programs underscores the reality of continued discrimination against and underutilization of Asian Americans, who allegedly have penetrated "all income levels." In fact, the Chinatowns and Little Tokyos across this country, which are the focal points of large Asian American populations, are proof that the conerns and problems of its residents are largely unknown to the public. There is a myth that there are no problems in these areas, that Asian Americans "take care of their own." Contrary...
...given any meaningful information until the last five minutes, and then after the fact. At that point both murderer and arcane motive are brought in out of left field to wrap up this rambling indecisive attempt at a thriller "American style." It is as if in Chinatown Jack Nicholson only discovered that John Huston had any interest in land just before he shot Faye Dunaway. Nor does the film's shallow social satire allow its all star cast to flourish any more than does the plot. Mastoianni is locked into a dull role as a middle class detective unsure...