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Word: filipino (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japan Society featured yakisoba--Japanese-style fried noodles, the Taiwanese Cultural Society served up scallion pancakes, the Harvard Philippine Forum (HPF) offered lumpia--a Filipino egg roll, and the South Asian Association had pakoras--vegetables deep-fried in chickpea batter...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cultural Extravaganza Draws 150 | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...never got much of a word in during my Filipino frying - screaming pectoral muscles don't do much for the debating skills - but I'm going to keep running every night. I really hope I get caught again soon, because there are a few things I just might say. More dispatches to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, Sergeant — It Is Night and I Am Jogging | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...course, retail stores are allowed to appeal to a certain market base. If Abercrombie wanted to appeal to a largely white audience, that's fine. There are plenty of fashion labels that target a specific ethnicity--Fubu for African-Americans and Pinoy-Wear for Filipino-Americans to name a few. But these designers make it clear that they are appealing to a certain group within the nation. Abercrombie tricks you into thinking that their ads represent all of America. Their troupe of Aryan models even travel to England to prove it. For as we all know, "the only...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Abercrombie and the "American" Image | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

After hijacking a green Toyota Camry, Furrow drove to the sparsely populated residential area of Chatsworth and spotted Joseph Ileto, 39, a Filipino-American postman making his midday rounds. Furrow got out and asked Ileto to mail a letter, then started firing a Glock 9-mm pistol he had drawn from his back pocket. Hit by two shots, Ileto struggled to run away, but Furrow opened fire again, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kids Got In The Way | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...Shatema, why can't we use this hip hop that you swear is yet to come attack the existing canon of hip hop's objectification and hatred of women, the males' insistence that we look half-black and Filipino or we won't see them? It should and will (I have thousands of things to say on that subject). We have to keep the problems straight in our mind and not attack sexism like it's a new thing, created by hip hop. True, women are most likely to be killed by someone they know, but why? Femme...

Author: By Shatema A. Threadcraft, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Girls at the Party?: This calls for something new. | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

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