Word: shamed
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...never like the idea of saying this is what I was trying to say. I want the audience to take from it whatever they want. If they come out of it questioning their friendships, then that is a shame. I want them to think about what authorship is, because I don’t think Shakespeare wrote the original Hamlet story, I think the character Hamlet wrote the play Hamlet. I want them to think about their friendships and how people change when they are around different people. And if I can get people to think about Hamlet, that?...
...names and shift their personalities to fit the color of the crowd in which they're mixing. Singer and actress Karen Mok, for example, grew up Karen Morris but used her Chinese name when she broke into the Canto-pop scene. "My Eurasian ancestors carried a lot of shame because they weren't one or the other," says Chinese-English performance artist Veronica Needa, whose play Face explores interracial issues. "Much of my legacy is that shame." Still, there's no question that Eurasians enjoy a higher profile today. "Every time I turn on the TV or look...
...daddy. In all, there are 52,000 mixed-race children nationwide, most the unwanted offspring of Western men and Filipina prostitutes. Some, like 16-year-old Robert, live on the streets, surviving on handouts and sniffs of mind-numbing glue. "They are born in shame," says Agnes Espiritu, a women's and child-rights activist based in Angeles City, home to what was once Clark Air Force Base, one of the the U.S.'s largest facilities in Asia before being returned to the Philippines in 1991. "They can't hide their history because it is printed so clearly on their...
...Erica, 9, isn't allowed to visit the park without her brother Christopher, 11, who wasn't permitted to play alone there until about a month ago. As for Matthew, 16, who might have supervised Christopher, he avoids the park by choice. He favors video games. "It's a shame," says Theresa. So why doesn't she take the kids to the park? "It's boring. And I don't have time," she says. "When I'm home, I have a lot to do here...
Through a series of cultural misfortunes arising over the past few weeks, I have developed a deep shame at being an American in a playhouse. It seems as if the theaters are not meant for my kind, and I wish to take this opportunity to apologize for our repeated intrusion into a venue in which we clearly do not belong...