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Word: chinatown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hear clear echoes of the Godfather films, for which Coppola, who knew nothing about real gangsters, has said he appropriated much of his own family dynamic - the scenes of eating and arguing. There are also hints of another 1974 classic, Chinatown, in the family mystery peeled layer by layer. And like Youth Without Youth, the new film boasts an exceptionally sensitive performance by a young actor - here Ehrenreich, who looks like a missing Sheen brother and plays the callow Bennie as if innocence and ignorance were the coolest qualities a teenager could possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coppola's Tetro: An Offer You Can Refuse | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

...childhood in a socioeconomically-depressed Chinatown neighborhood—his family lived in a four-bedroom apartment with three other families—led to an early interest in using the political system to develop his community...

Author: By Spencer H. Hardwick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building Bridges, Shattering Stereotypes | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...were more interested in Yoon’s positions—such as a promise to bring more transparency to Boston government—than his ethnicity. Yoon said he had been prompted to run for the council during an effort to secure land for low-income housing in Chinatown. “I asked myself, ‘what if there had been just one Asian at City Hall or in the State House?’” Yoon said. During his speech, Yoon yielded the floor to Harvard students representing an initiative to bring a temporary...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yoon Hosts ‘College Night’ at Kong | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...students—clad in crimson shirts to demonstrate solidarity—enthusiastically chanted, “How do we stand? United!” The rally also included three brief speeches by Weijie Huang ’09, chair of the Phillips Brooks House Association Chinatown Committee; Andrea R. Flores ’10, president of the Undergraduate Council; and Edward Y. Lee ’08-09, co-director of the Harvard Undergraduates for Human Rights in North Korea. Shortly after the discriminatory graffiti was first discovered, seven different Asian-American student organizations sent e-mails last Saturday...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Students Rally Against Racism | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...their hands on a dumpling or two. For this festive affair, Leverett dining hall was transformed into a party scene packed with more than 350 guests, including students, tutors, and even professors. Dinner, consisting of a never-ending 14 courses, was catered by the Peach Farm restaurant in Chinatown. The restaurant’s strange name, according to co-president of CSA Daniel C. Suo ’09, can be attributed to a “bad translation.” But dinner was surprisingly tasty, with everything from pork and shrimp to incredible bubble tea, all of which...

Author: By Ryan D. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dining in for a Change | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

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