Word: hula
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...dystopia.THC: What new projects are you developing?MZ: On display at the Carpenter Center are three watercolors that were based on depictions of Hawaiian women circa 1860. I was interested in what Hawaiian women looked like before races became mixed in Hawaii, as well as this mythology of the hula girl, which is another paradise, a utopian situation. These pictures are masculine and primitive-looking. I’m also interested in the hegemony of the photographers and filmmakers; they took on the role of imperialists coming into indigenous lands to represent people devoid of a personal or cultural history...
...friends are occasional visitors and joined the Obamas for spring break, as they have for the past several years - but this year the gathering took place at Camp David. Among the traditions is a talent show, with everyone required to perform. This year Michelle demonstrated her skills with two hula hoops; Obama and the men sang "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." The visits typically include charades, singing, board games - although now that the Obamas are making use of the White House bowling alley and pool table, the other families tease them by saying they'll refuse to play...
...even in Japan, the President-Elect of the United States is a media darling. Well before this month's election, Obama fever was in full swing in a small town in western Japan called Obama, where residents formed hula teams in homage of the politician's Hawaii years. Ten months ago, Notchi didn't even know who Barack Obama was until his wife mentioned he looked like the up-and-coming politician. "I thought Obama was a pro wrestler or a fighter or something," the comedian recalls, wearing the dark suit - originally purchased for weddings and funerals - that he uses...
...Queens, N.Y., has broken more than 200 records. He notched his first in 1979 by doing more than 27,000 jumping jacks, and has since hop-scotched the globe in search of new marks, tacking on records for rope-skipping (on a pogo stick) at Cambodia's Angkor Wat, hula-hooping at Australia's Ayers Rock, and traveling the entire 12-mile length of Paul Revere's Massachusetts ride in forward rolls. "I'm trying to show others that our human capacity is unlimited if we can truly believe in ourselves," Furman wrote...
...state where elderly Native Hawaiians, or kupuna, still tell horror stories of being beaten for speaking their native language in public, many of the 1978 changes to the state's constitution crystalized the renaissance in Hawaiian culture that included a resurgence in hula dancing and the practice of navigating canoes over thousands of miles of open ocean while relying on only the natural elements of wind, waves and stars - a technique known as "wayfaring...