Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word bagpipes conjures up an image that is, in this case, far off the mark. Unlike their strident, better known and more ancient Scottish cousins, the Irish (or Uilleann) bagpipes are soft and melodic; their construction is different, and no one wears an ethnic costume for performances. Not that the Irish scorn the Highland pipes; they play them too, on occasions like St. Patrick's Day parades, but that is in part because the Irish pipes cannot be played standing up. Besides, they are not very loud. The Scottish variety is challenging enough, but Uilleann pipes are in a class...
INMAN SQUARE IS RAPIDLY becoming an ethnic roto-sampler, with restaurant offerings ranging from the queasy combination of "Pizza and Seafood" to more fashionably exotic offerings like Thai and Korean. The recent Southbound yuppie trend has also swept through Inman Square, depositing yet another Cajun place in its spicy wake. But amidst these rising ethnic stars is a less media-glutted food group. The savory and homey seafood smorgasbord of Portuguese food, which is not the sub-division of Spanish or Mexican many people assume it is, can be found at the Casa Portugal...
Creativity aside, Angel Heart is entertaining in a way. Mickey Rourke gives the best in his series of hard-boiled-ethnic-gumshoe-with-a-heart-of-gold-an d-sort-of-a-racist performances by adding elements of humanity to the character of Angel, giving the film its only sympathetic reference point...
However, Vendler, poetry critic for the New Yorker and the editor of the "Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry," said, "There is no bias against ethnic poetry" as long as it is good...
...student members have beenselected yet but they will include representativesfrom various ethnic organizations and theUndergraduate Council, Counter said, adding thatthe group will probably hold its first meetingnext week...