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...look different, and nothing will ever change that or people's reactions. At my baby shower, some friends mistook my father, a professor, for a Chinese waiter. I've had Chinese Americans and Chinese-in-China talk about me as though I weren't there: "I had a cousin from the south who looked like her, but her hair is disgusting." On book tours, Caucasians will often ask point-blank, "Why would you choose to be Chinese when you have all the privileges of being white?" Given my family and the era in which I grew...
Clown Around Town, the BAC’s 2000-2001 season production, stars Orville (Tom Dougherty) as the Country Clown arriving in NYC to visit his cousin, Gordoon (Jeff Gordon), the City Clown. The two go on a tour of the city’s sites, encountering acrobats, magicians, jugglers, trapeze artists and animals along...
DIED. JOHN OAKES, 87, crusading editorial-page writer and editor of the New York Times, whose passionate defense of human rights and the environment and early opposition to the war in Vietnam led to his dismissal as editor of the editorial page by his cousin the publisher but helped to establish the Times's liberal voice; on April 5, following a stroke last month; in Manhattan...
...tells me that he is Prince Franz, presumably a distant cousin of the Leopold clan. My suspicions about the prince are heightened when he hands his consort one of those throwaway cameras and instructs her to snap a shot of him with Crowe. Certainly nothing that a real royal from Britain would do. But the Euro-royals are known to ride bikes in Holland and wait at bus stops in Spain. So perhaps having a mantelpiece snapshot with an Australian actor is part of that less starchy image...
...except by her affectionate yet dispassionate descriptions of them. There are Bella and Izzy as young communists in love, her father saving her mother from drowning, choosing her over her sister--a revelation to their daughter, who had been worried that her parents weren't romantic enough. There's cousin Meyer, who fled to America to escape the Cossacks, lost his entire family when the Nazis occupied his hometown in Ukraine, raised another family in the U.S. but was so saddened by America's role in Vietnam that he killed himself at 87. And there's Aunt Lily, the clan...