Word: schoolgirlisms
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...Wild Ginger is in elementary school when she delivers this speech. One marvels over a schoolgirl's concern about Western imperialism, but the novel has scene after scene where Chinese teenagers talk like characters reading from scripts written by the Committee for Right Speeches...
...just don’t get why they think this is a good idea,” shouted Alison T. Haynes ’04 to anyone who would listen Saturday night at the Owl’s Catholic schoolgirl party. As a former St. Ignatius girl herself, the donning of kneesocks and kilt triggered psychotic stress memories of Sister Anne Mary rather than inspiring the cheerful sluthood the Owl intended...
...time the police get involved, it is often too late. Wakako Tokuda was a plump-cheeked schoolgirl attending a prestigious private academy in Kobe. Though she had run away before, Tokuda left home for good last December after her father reportedly blew up over her newly pierced ears. Her 21-year-old boyfriend found the 16-year-old Tokuda strangled late October in the one-room Osaka apartment they shared. It turned out Tokuda had been seduced by the mean streets of Osaka. Journalists found ads for a bar, where patrons paid to fondle girls, featuring Tokuda in a slinky...
...thousands of protesters. His 1994 To You From Me shocked audiences with its explicit sexual themes?and the main character's obsession with her own derriere. Last year he had Korea's censors in conniptions with Lies, an S&M whipfest that begins with a kinky sculptor deflowering a schoolgirl. Lies was in-your-face auteur cinema at its rawest?the censors took the scissors to it, the art-house crowd loved it and average moviegoers, well, they stayed away...
...service members' legal rights in Japan--those charged with a criminal offense are protected from incarceration by the Japanese until after they are indicted. Among the reasons for this is the long, isolating detention period, which the U.S. considers overly harsh. It was only after a 12-year-old schoolgirl was raped by three servicemen in 1995 that the U.S. bent its objections and promised to consider handing over suspects prior to indictment in cases of "heinous" crimes. Okinawa had been transformed by the 1995 attack, and rage against the presence of U.S. forces overflowed into the streets. Victims formed...