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...spent months hanging with the Hounslow homeboys, jotting down their thoughts and folkways. His tutor, the late Susan Benson, shrewdly asked him to consider the subculture in terms of gender, not race. "Asserting their ethnicity is actually a way of asserting their masculinity," says Malkani, noting that his subjects' disgust for "coconuts" actually masks a fear that they themselves might be considered soft, bookish, effeminate. After getting his degree, Malkani spent years trying to turn his dissertation into a nonfiction book. "But my job made it tough, and every time I started to work on the book, it all seemed...
...they protect. In one especially disquieting scene, the mountain patrol looks out over a vast field of sun-bleached antelope carcasses as a pair of marauding vultures picks them clean of their meat. During these moments, Lu draws us close to the mountain patrol, sharing in not only their disgust, but also their terror. It’s all the more tragic, then, when Lu argues the poacher’s case with nearly equal force: when Ritai instructs his men to sell some of the confiscated antelope pelts to pay his group’s medical bills, we empathize...
...offered. And support is gaining for stricter conservation requirements for companies - though notably not for individuals. One thing you won't see are more attempts to buy off disgruntled voters with hard cash. The Senate Republican proposal to give every taxpayer $100 caused an outcry around the country and disgust among fiscal conservatives. "People see through gimmicks," said Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan, who calls the $100 rebate "goofy political theatrics...
...wish, for the sake of literature in general, that every gifted writer had the clout required to get his or her work out there like Viswanathan did. So my reaction of disgust to the entire affair is not premised on jealousy, but injustice. The disillusionment comes not from plagiarism but from the blatant (mis)use of social power...
...noise-rock group Kites took a turn for the bizarre when the artist took a razor to his own chest.Bechtold describes 2003’s event as “one of those things where people watch in fascination for a little, and then fascination turns to discomfort to disgust and then a bunch of people leave. It was awe-inspiring.”Nonetheless, RH director Will B. Payne ’07, who is also a former Crimson arts executive, promises the event will be accessible for “the average music enthusiast” despite...