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While Asian women have been increasingly featured in U.S. films and on TV, the Asian male remains mostly ignored. If at all represented, he is usually either weak, nerdy or a crazed ninja looking to shed innocent white blood. This film scores big in bringing to American audiences an Asian...

Author: By Joyce M. Koh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Anna and the King a By-the-Numbers Epic | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

True, many of the teams will be going to exotic, or quasi-exotic, locations for their trip, but this does not make it a vacation by any stretch of the imagination.

Author: By Timothy M. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Favorite Martin | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

It began life as a (possibly fictionalized) diary by its heroine and has since been a novel, a movie, a Broadway musical, a movie version of that musical and an animated feature. It is now back to being a straight movie--without songs, without the Small House of Uncle Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The End of a Long Reign | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

It would require much exotic calculation, however, to deny that the single most powerful figure--not merely in these two millenniums but in all human history--has been Jesus of Nazareth. Not only is the prevalent system of denoting the years based on an erroneous 6th century calculation of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Of Nazareth Then And Now | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

GNHBA: I think the word "exotic" should be obliterated from the English language forever. Exotic leads to "exoticization." Which...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Zero Tolerance for 'Tolerance' | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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