Word: ha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ha! Not so fast. I just saw a Rainforest Action Network ad thanking Home Depot for changing its purchasing policies...
LAURYN HILL Miseducation? Ha. 'Twas a five-Grammy year. Make album No. 2 good or you're '90s Carole King...
...WAITING by Ha Jin. A doctor in the Chinese army wants to divorce his wife, who lives back in his native village, and marry a nurse. Years and years pass, and the doctor gets no closer to his heart's desire. The author's gently comic rendering of this ordeal won him, deservedly, a 1999 National Book Award...
...Ha ha. Did any of your freshman roommates annoy...
Although there is nothing inherently funny about two people being romantically thwarted for nearly two decades, Waiting turns, page by careful page, into a deliciously comic novel. Ha Jin, who left his native China in 1985 to study at Brandeis University and then remained in the U.S., tells this tale in an impeccably deadpan manner. He casts a wise, rather than a cold, eye on his characters' struggles, both with an inflexible social system and their own weaknesses. With two earlier collections of stories and a novella, Ha Jin attracted notice as a guide to a world few outside China...