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...even today the link between Australia and its Asian neighbors is tenuous. Canberra discarded its whites-only immigration policy in 1976, but decades of Australian xenophobia linger in Asian memories. On Hong Kong and Malaysian television, Australia is often portrayed as a racist country. Australians, on the other hand, are still prey to what Governor-General Bill Hayden, the Queen's representative in the federal government, recently called "Orientalist fantasies," timeworn images of exotic, erotic and despotic Asians. Even after the cultural and economic transformations of the past decade, Australia differs radically from its neighbors in language, law, religion, concepts...
...recently bought a copy of the Fiftieth Anniversary Report of the Harvard College Class of 1892 in a used bookstore. We paid a dollar for the book, a compilation of 191 autobiographical sketches, called "Class Lives," which are each about two pages long. We feel a tenuous connection with these men, perhaps like you'd feel with a dead great aunt. Or a major league baseball player who went to your high school. Or maybe the guy buried next to your mother's grave. It's kind of morbid...
With the outlook so tenuous, consumers have mixed emotions about spending their money. "Everything seems very unsettled right now," says Carol Jeanes, 38, who is publications director for the Houston Association of Realtors. "Everyone I know is jittery. It's hard to feel that things are better when your friends are getting laid off and having to readjust their whole careers." Despite her concerns, though, Jeanes is shopping for a new house because of low interest rates...
...Yorker who loves Georgia O'Keefe paintings. Victor (Stephan Lucano) is an older man who models for Audrey's sketches. The object/objectifier relationship is a familiar theme to the audience by the time these two come on stage, but the exact connection between the two couples is curious and tenuous until the very end, where everything is tied together perhaps too well...
...book's message and Chellis' voice are far from feminist. Instead of recognizing the societal and cultural barriers that women contend with, Chellis chides readers not to "blame the system." The absence of minority women from the lower echelons of society highlight the book's and the author's tenuous conclusions...