Word: oriented
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...winning film actress; in London. A regal woman with a rich voice, Hiller was George Bernard Shaw's leading lady, first as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and then, most memorably, in Major Barbara. Her aristocratic bearing served her well as a tourist in Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express and as the elegant widow in the London stage version of Driving Miss Daisy...
...where one of the lucky winners took home a box of “X-Rated Fortune Cookies,” bearing a squint-eyed, buck-toothed caricature of a “Chinese” waiter, scandalizing his blond-haired, blue-eyed customer with sexual secrets of the Orient. When the gross racism of this artifact was brought to the attention of the BGLTSA board, there was no official response. This is the consequence of an agenda of visibility that fails to think politically—or, more precisely, to think at all: these decontextualized performances of politics serve...
...know every nook and cranny of the (real) place," he says, and it's no idle boast. Dy, 66, was part of a team of artists that drew up complete architectural blueprints of Angkor Wat in 1969 for the Ecole Fran?aise d'Extr?me Orient research organization. Those blueprints are proudly displayed on a wall in his workshop, along with an award from Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk in recognition of his work as an artist. In a visitors' book, one tourist rates this alternative Angkor "better than the helicopter trip to the real thing...
...Sunday is still evolving. Topjian hopes to expand the menu, and will soon launch a website for placing orders. There is even talk of devising a delivery service for nearby houses. For now, though, Sunday-sushi cravers must come on down to Quincy for their weekly taste of the Orient...
...Istanbul's most notable landmarks - and the easiest way to orient yourself - is the Bosporus, the strait that divides the city, the fluid boundary between Europe and Asia. European Istanbul comprises the bulk of the city to the west, while the mostly residential Asian Istanbul is to the east. To get your bearings, take a ferry from the Eminonu docks up the Bosporus, stopping for lunch at one of the fishing villages near the Black Sea, passing a series of sumptuous villas and Ottoman houses along the way. European Istanbul is itself divided by the Golden Horn, an inlet...