Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even admirable attempts to address the stereotypes fall short--if only because a lot of people don't recognize satire. Apu on The Simpsons is a ludicrously drawn character, a heavily accented and mustachioed man who runs a Kwik-E Mart and offers guru-like advice to his befuddled friend Homer (when he is not making his own gauche mistakes). I don't think most Americans even recognize that The Simpsons uses Apu to mock American conceptions of South-Asian Americans...
...Eliot and Kirkland renovations have drawn rave reviews from students, but Condenzio says that the process of transforming two well-worn kitchens into models for the entire food service industry--all in 11 weeks--is one that could only have been done with lots of help...
...site's catchy pun of a name, originally Geiger's idea, has no doubt drawn many would-be buyers...
...steward] would set up a bar, put on a white coat and mix drinks," says Sears, who remembers hearing graduates reminisce about the horse-drawn carriages that had once rolled past the club...
...Prime Minister John Howard warned the nation Wednesday to expect casualties, after Australia heeded a U.N. request to head up a mission to restore order to East Timor by "all necessary measures." The first Australians will arrive by the weekend to head up a multinational force of 8,000 drawn mostly from Asian countries. And ending the violence in the territory will be their most dangerous mission since the Vietnam war. The operation's primary task will be to disarm the anti-independence militias who, assisted by elements of the Indonesian military, continued Wednesday with a campaign of terror against...