Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rainbow has cleared out. Langlo'sparents are putting away lettuce and rice andsoup. Someone is cleaning the kitchen. Langlodarts from table to table, wiping them down,sweeping the floors. "People think Chinatown's notsafe, because of the race. People are afraid ofChinese people...
Langlo does not want to talk aboutChinese-Vietnamese tensions in Chinatown. "Ireally don't care. I have so much different racefriends. I try not to talk to them about it,because I'm afraid it would offend me or I wouldoffend them so I try not to talk, `cause I meanwe're all friends. I talk exactly how I feel andwe talk about everything, but when it comes torace tensions we just don't talk about...
...eleven o'clock, most of therestaurants have closed up for the night. Duringthe day, Chinatown is busy. People run to grocerystores, markets, restaurants and cafes. At night,Chinatown feels almost deserted. It does not havethe round-the-clock energy and activity of SanFrancisco's or New York's Chinatowns...
...then some porn shops. Outside theNaked I, Michael Hutch asks for change. He'strying to get together seven dollars so he can buya ticket and sleep in the movie theater. "Fuckingperverts in there," he mumbles. "I just want to goand get some fucking sleep.A-12The Gate from Boston into Chinatown. Oneblock down is The Rainbow. Five to the Naked...
...beloved scrutiny writer Seth Mnookin traipsed all over Chinatown taking pictures to illustrate his piece and had his life threatened many times. The pictures didn't come out. Back at The Harvard Crimson, we faced cartoon dilemmas, late text, late editing, computer mishaps...the usual horrors, plus four extra pages in which they could occur...