Word: orientale
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"I just thought we had to do something to honor all of the unsung Oriental dancers in this country."
The early days of this memoir have the charm and freedom of life lived as holiday in someone else's magic country. "My first impression of Paris was that it wasn't so much a city as a stage setting from a Broadway musical," Buchwald reports. "The sidewalk cafes were...
Disheartening; heart-wrenching, and yet thoroughly hearty, Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" continues the gutsy Delvena Theatre Company's four-year investigation into the human love-organ. In the crammed seating of Leland Center, where the front-row audience members rest their legs on the worn...
Glossy views of Chinese patients stretched out on operating tables, their bodies bristling, porcupine-like, with needles, used to be the fare of National Geographic or colorful travel brochures. Acupuncture--the Oriental practice of piercing the flesh with steel needles to relieve illness--was long as exotic to Westerners as...
But the move toward hyphenation has been a very different kind of struggle for Asian-Americans; it has been, arguably, a fight for the legitimacy of the "American" in the name rather than for the primacy of the "Asian." Asian-Americans have had to combat perceptions of them as profoundly...