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...foreign visa technicalities, drunken-salaryman patter, Yakuza personnel policy - suggests that the author has been there and, horrors, maybe even done that. In fact, Barker, born 26 years ago to an English father and a Chinese-Malay mother, did spend two years working in Osaka, though as an English teacher, not a bar girl. Then she entered the graduate writing program at Manchester University, where she evidently studied a bit too hard. Time doesn't just pass in Sayonara Bar, it "drips on like a festering stalactite." As Watanabe cowers outside a gangster's lair where Mary lies drugged...
...teacher was apparently a stripper,” he added...
...blue-blooded MacInesses suspect that the relationship between Eric and Vermeer was more than just teacher-student. And they also believe that Vermeer might have been the murderer of his suspected ex-lover. The result is a crimson-tinted twist on the old whodunit template...
...writers to generate meaning through stories or just recounting information…I began to immerse myself in rap, viewing it as a natural extension of my respect for the word and for communication. In high school, I began performing in poetry-slams after some guidance from an English teacher, in addition to small hip-hop concerts, and thus was introduced to the “spoken word,” or performance poetry. For me though, a lot of the barriers in genre-title don’t exist. I view hip-hop and rap as poetry: any time...
...Crimson, it’s hard to review his work without at least a twinge of defensiveness. And perhaps Wiener is correct that The Crimson blew the Thernstrom controversy out of proportion, contributing to the politicization of what was in reality a civil disagreement between a teacher and his students over a course syllabus. One chapter later, however, Wiener gets his facts flat-out wrong when he launches an unwarranted attack on Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the Phillips professor of early American history at Harvard...