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This explains the difficulty Asian-American actors have had in trying to break through stereotypical roles like "Long Duck Dong" in Sixteen Candles. And when Asian-Americans aren't portrayed as geeky and insipid, they're cast as mysterious experts at Kung Fu...

Author: By Beong-soo Kim, | Title: The Myth of (Asian) America | 1/6/1993 | See Source »

...press reports allege Sliwa has yet to own up to all such misdeeds. Still, Sliwa says his honor is intact: "My reputation in New York was almost mythically heroic, and this is just a hard reality check." Hard indeed. He says his Angel wife Lisa launched a spinning, kung-fu kick at his face when he told her about his fabrications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halo, Goodbye | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

There was no shortage of winners as the Olympics loudspeakers began playing national anthems last week: Fu Mingxia, the poised Chinese diver who was not even born when El Loco began hitting home runs for Cuba; the Maldivian swimmer who became the first in his country's Olympic history not to finish last (in part because that position was already occupied by another Maldivian swimmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barcelona the Win-Win Games | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...member national team, from age 14 on they earn an average worker's salary, with bonuses for major victories. An Olympic gold medal brings 20,000 yuan, or about $3,700, equivalent to the average per capita income for a quarter-century. Says a prominent Chinese sports journalist: "Fu Mingxia is a money tree for her family." Still, that Olympic bonus is less than a fifth of what the Soviet Union offered athletes for gold at Seoul -- and about one-third of 1% of what American gymnast Mary Lou Retton earned from capitalist sources after her Olympic heyday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diving China's Chosen Ones | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...group, part of the school's Coalition forCivil Rights, held an overnight sit-in Clark'soffice to protest the lack of diversity in facultyhiring. The nine were third-year student CharisseCarney and second year students William Ansprach,Julie Fu, Jodi Grant, Derek Homore, Lucy Koh,Elizabeth Moreno, Jill Newman and Marie-LouiseRamsdale...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ad Board Will Try Student Protestors | 4/29/1992 | See Source »

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