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Just for kicks, imagine New York City, 1868: The bustling center of American culture abounded with theaters, P.T. Barnum-esque museums of curiosities, and the middle and upper classes whose sensibilities these entertainments are offended. British burlesque star Lydia Thompson and her sensual troupe, the British Blondes—short skirts and satirical skits in tow—stepped off their ship and into a foreign country teetering on the cultural waves of a nation in flux...
...future literary world belongs to the post-'80s generation. They must be more arrogant. A writer must be arrogant." Yet despite his youthful bravado, Han, who has published 14 books and anthologies, generally stays away from sensitive issues such as democracy and human rights. His calculated rebelliousness, says Lydia Liu, a professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, exemplifies the unspoken compact his generation has forged with the ruling Communist Party: Leave us alone to have fun and we won't challenge your right to run the country. "He is known for being a sharp critic...
...Most of these kids won’t go trick-or-treating on Halloween. Many of them live in apartment buildings in Chinatown, which is not conducive to trick-or-treating,” said Lydia Krooss, a sophomore at Wellesley and one of the heads of Chinatown After School. “A lot of the kids are from immigrant families—the idea of trick-or-treating seems kind of strange...
PBHA Executive Vice President Lydia N. Lo ’09-’10 agreed, saying “There was a slight misunderstanding as to where the bikes would go this year.” She also said that while the bike sale is a yearly PBHA event, it raises less money than many of PBHA’s other fundraisers. “It’s about keeping up a tradition,” says Lo. “It doesn’t matter that much to PBHA in the grand scheme of things...
...going to make it, and it's good fun trying to pick the winners - although the boy who shimmied his hips through "All That Jazz" was robbed. The school's motto, as delivered by Debbie Allen, in the role of Principal Simms - no word on what happened to Lydia Grant - is dedication to the craft. "We don't care about your head shot," she admonishes the incoming freshmen. "Or your dreams of being in OK magazine." (See the Top 10 Teen Idols...