Word: embarrassment
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...caption 'Anna May again loses face for China.'" He wasn't exaggerating. When Shanghai Express played in the city it supposedly was set in, a local newspaper called Wong "the female traitor to China," and a journal in Tianjin carried the headline: "Paramount Uses Anna May Wong to Embarrass China Again." Apparently not realizing that the villain Chang was a Communist, and Wong's Hui Fei, though a prostitute, was a brave Nationalist who kills Chang to save China, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government banned the film. Said Wong: "It's a pretty sad situation to be rejected...
...sweating bullets as I see him sitting patiently at a table by himself in a fleece vest and a canvas baseball hat. I wonder whether I will embarrass myself and decide not to bring up the relative physical merits of the film’s graphically pictured stars. This is a little crude, I realize, but have a conversation after Kinsey and you’ll know what I’m talking about...
...Matalon, an assistant NELC professor, said that while he disagrees with Arafat’s politics, he hopes “people who are sympathetic toward Palestinians or Israelis—or both, as in my case—will not embarrass themselves by making a spectacle of vengeance...
...operations at the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign last year. A shrewd problem solver, she is considered one of his closest political advisers. Still, some conservatives were furious that Kerry went out of his way to mention Mary's lesbianism because they saw it as a way to embarrass the Republican ticket or alienate it from its evangelical base. It was an "attempt to suppress a certain segment of Christian votes," says Gary Bauer, a former Republican presidential candidate and a leading advocate of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Lynne Cheney called it "a cheap and tawdry political...
...expect to win this weekend; I just want to get out there and have a good time racing in the single as a change of pace from the eight,” Davies said. “My goal for this weekend is simply not to embarrass myself...