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...remote northern province, the village chief (Lei Lao Sheng) has lost his temper and kicked a man (Liu Pei Qi) where it hurts. But Qiu Ju (Gong Li), the man's wife, is hurt mainly in the pride, and she resolves to get satisfaction for this slur. The local public-security bureau agent, Mr. Li (Ge Zhi Jun), a reasonable politician in a hopeless situation, tells the chief to pay Qiu Ju and her husband 200 yuan in reparation. When she comes to the chief for the payment, he strews 20 10-yuan notes on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire in Her Eyes | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...think I'm ever going to hear an individual making an anti-Semitic slur," says Megan E. Lewis '95, a Hillel member and panelist in tonight's discussion...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: HOW REAL ARE BLACK-JEWISH TENSIONS? | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

When Ryan spoke of slur-casting, Professor ofEducation and Social Structure Nathan Glazer'shand shot into...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Discussion Over ROTC Heated | 11/11/1992 | See Source »

Last year's Peninsula issue and an anti-gay slur posted on a Lowell House student's door were the most blatant anti-gay actions. But more subtle indications of hostility are also prevalent, say some gay students...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GAY LIFE AT HARVARD | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

Viewers' familiarity with the gore genre has never bothered Brian De Palma. He has been considered a Hitchcock groupie for so long that, by now, the slur seems like a badge. The plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twin Piques | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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