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...laugh attacks the room again, shrill and unembarrassed, and he tries once more. “So do you know where the illegal Eastern European women hang out?” The more desperate, the better...
...Which makes it all the more disappointing that the narrative in The Chinese in America is too often drowned out by Chang's shrill homilies on the politics of identity . In a discussion of the formation of benevolent associations in San Francisco's Chinatown, she writes: "The white man's government had demonstrated that its mission was to suppress, not protect, Chinese interests." At times, her legitimate attempts to tackle negative racial stereotypes get lost in a flurry of equally clich?d?and occasionally jingoistic?tributes to Chinese-ness. After quoting an American who is impressed that the first foreign-language...
...view is less charitable: "The feisty cow meant it." Steel doesn't limit his jibes to historical targets; he frequently invokes modern parallels - especially British establishment types - to emphasize a point. His mention of the guillotine as a liberal, more humanitarian method of execution prompts a riff on how shrill-voiced arch-Tory Ann Widdecombe would have complained that the Jacobins were soft on crime. You might not laugh your head off, but Vive La Revolution yields enough chuckles to distinguish it from most histories...
YOUR TONE CAN BE A LITTLE SHRILL SOMETIMES. DON'T YOU THINK THAT WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW IS UNITY, NOT MORE ACRIMONY? What we need now is to fight the war on terrorism, and liberals don't want to. I think it's more important long term that we have two parties, both of which want to defend the nation...
...known for his shrill whistle and for his sometimes-offensive gags, grabbing women’s rear ends and flirting with them, nastily telling off people who didn’t give him money and making fun of gays mercilessly...