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...INSTANT MESSAGING Meebo In geekspeak, it's an IM unifier. In plain English, it's a one-stop shop for all your instant-messaging needs. Which is to say that Meebo puts all your IM clients - the individual programs that make instant-messaging services incompatible with one another - into one browser window. There's no need to download all the different apps (MSN, AOL/ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber/Gtalk) to your computer to have any and all types of IM conversations. Available in four dozen languages...
...that is only aggravated by attempts to solve it." But the term also has had racial implications. In his book Coup, John Updike says of a white woman who prefers the company of black men, "some questing chromosome within holds her sexually fast to the tar baby." The Oxford English Dictionary (but not the print version of its American counterpart) says that tar baby is a derogatory term used for "a black or a Maori...
...gentleman under suspicion is Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman), a moneyed chap who is polite to the point of blandness--the white bread of the English upper crust. Through a device too silly to be mentioned here, he comes to the attention of Sondra Pransky (Johansson), an American college student abroad. She believes Peter may be the infamous Tarot Card Killer who has been murdering prostitutes. Her co-sleuth is Sid Waterman (Allen), a not-so-hot magician who masquerades as her oil-rich father...
...first Asian-American drama troupe?was hailed as "the godfather of Asian-American theater"; of esophageal cancer; in Somis, California. Born Makoto Iwamatsu in Kobe, Japan, he went to the U.S. as a teen and discovered acting. Roles for Asians then were demeaningly comic, written almost exclusively in pidgin English. But Mako's portrayal of the Chinese coolie Po-han in 1966's The Sand Pebbles, although in broken English, rose above stereotype and won him an Oscar nomination...
...first Asian-American drama troupe--was hailed as "the godfather of Asian-American theater"; of esophageal cancer; in Somis, Calif. Born Makoto Iwamatsu in Kobe, Japan, he came to the U.S. as a teen and discovered acting. Roles for Asians then were demeaningly comic, written almost exclusively in pidgin English. But Mako's portrayal of Chinese coolie Po-han in 1966's The Sand Pebbles, although in broken English, rose above stereotype and won him an Oscar nomination...