Word: nessness
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...name to Cheyenne, because a Western friend told her the name fits someone mature, mysterious and chic. And Fifi wants to be all three. An old boyfriend gave her the name "Fifi." But that was back when she wasn't fully formed, when she hadn't developed the "Cheyenne-ness" of her character...
...parapara. Concentration puckering Razumi's pixie-shaped face into a frown, she tries to keep time with the fast-paced beats at Isn't It? "I practice every day and make sure to keep up with all the new releases as they come out," she says, her otaku-ness coming across more brightly than the florescent green of her zip-up sweater...
...hair cut in a close-cropped Caesar?and coasts through yet another hour of live before-a-studio-audience television trash. Yet, despite his apparent indifference, he carries the show, not through arch commentary or the Japanese equivalent of Cowardesque wit, but by sheer force of his Beat-ness...
...Asian descent, there are sharper reminders that we are not yet considered part of the American context, that our presence is unidiomatic, all too easily aped, too often perceived as too alien to be appreciated as anything other than caricature. When the focus is on the "un-American-ness" of public figures, yellowface can generate the quick laugh. It was the route chosen by the National Review in 1997 when it lampooned the Clintons and Al Gore on its cover during the campaign-finance "Asian money" scandals. The Wen Ho Lee case reminds Chinese Americans in particular of the extraterritoriality...
...mentioning if Republicans weren't striving to be the Good Guy Party. The Bush campaign is premised almost exclusively on the strength of Bush's personality and the perceived weakness of Gore's and the character-free behavior of You-Know-Who. Now Gore has seen the Republicans' Barney-ness and raised them...