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Hwang, Kim says, referred repeatedly to the baby as "the Chink," because the father was a peasant from northeastern China, where Kim had fled earlier that year. As she lay on the prison floor, Hwang demanded that she abort the fetus herself. She refused, so the guard began kicking her in the stomach. Then he beat her and, as her sister screamed, continued beating Kim until she blacked out. When she regained consciousness, she says, she "was taken to a clinic in the camp, and in the most blunt manner, they removed [the fetus] from my body...
...shields of riot police, who replied with water cannon and tear gas. "The bourgeoisie to the gulag!" read a wall scrawl. Most of last week's demonstrators deplored the violence - but not the passion that underlaid it. Marchers derided throwaway "Kleenex jobs" for the young as the first chink in the armor protecting France's tradition of jobs-for-life. "This law is a sign of social regression," said Gilles Debin, a white-collar union official who joined the Saturday protest in Paris. "It leaves the workers with no recourse, and we'll oppose it and anything like it until...
...WHAT DANGERS LIE AHEAD During re-entry, Discovery's nose and the leading edges of the shuttle's wings--and the atmosphere surrounding them--could heat to as much as 3000ºF (1650ºC). Any chink in the shuttle's heat-resistant armor could allow superheated air to penetrate unprotected areas, where it would act like a blowtorch--the same process that destroyed Columbia ?TILE DAMAGE One gouge is close to the wheel well, where an influx of hot gases could cause an explosion
Such spectacles as these, suggesting the start of a full-blown trend, just might put a tiny chink in the razor business and a serious crimp in Kiam's sunny sales pitch, not to mention his syntax. "Is Don Johnson of the prehistoric cavemen who didn't know how to start fires nor learned good grooming?" he spluttered recently. Indeed, a little perspective might be useful right now, although the historical foundation for this great stubble bubble stops somewhat short of the dawn...
...theatrical tradition of white actors in "yellowface" precedes movies, and the innate realism of films didn't discourage early actors. In 1919, the year Richard Barthelmess played the sensitive "chink" in Broken Blossoms, the Danish actor Warner Oland played his first Chinese in The Lightning Raider. Oland looked no more Chinese than, say, Bob Keeshan, yet he was cast "yellow" dozens of times, including in four films with Wong, and culminating in 16 Charlie Chan movies. When Oland died, in 1938, Missouri-born Sidney Toler was tabbed to replace him; he played the sleuth in 22 films, until his death...