Word: misfit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel is like the younger sibling of a child prodigy: its achievements appear smaller than they actually are, and its flaws more serious. Gus Lee's China Boy was as precocious as they come. Based on the author's own childhood, it told of a first-generation Chinese-American misfit named Kai Ting who struggles to grow up in a predominantly black San Francisco neighborhood. The youngster stands up to the ghetto's bullies and his Caucasian stepmother, who imposes a harsh Americanization regimen that bans Chinese language and customs. Out of these fresh and dramatic materials Lee fashioned...
...Guerrero Group Theatre presents Tiny Voices, five new short plays written and directed by Jordan Wine, including "The Misfit" which is based on a Flannery O'Conner story. Performances: March 17, 18, 19 at 8 p.m. March 20 at 7 p.m. At the Adams House Pool Theatre. Admission: $5. All money goes toward Project Bosnia to buy urgent medical suuplies. For info call J. Winer...
...addition to the bizarre melange of genres, the film is somewhat annoying in its Dan Quayle-esque Republican insistence upon family values. Though Haynes is a slime and a psychological misfit, Eastwood and Costner render him thoroughly endearing to the audience. The film also suggests that Haynes is somehow less accountable for his actions, and his anti-child-molesting streak becomes the prime justification for some of his crazy antics. The film never makes a definitive statement on the question of this moral responsibility, but chooses its points of drama for the lesser issues of the guilt, fear and confusion...
...thought I was the worst misfit," says Shayne M. Mauricette '96, who hails from Toronto. "I thought there must be something wrong with me that out of 1600 people, they picked me to live here...
fergie (fr ft.ge) chiefly British: a rambunctious misfit and renegade; a royal black sheep ((late 20th cent., origin obscure...