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While I agree with Allen that we as Asian men have to live with some rather vicious stereotypes, and that few models of heroic Asian men exist in the mainstream American media, I think that he is losing sight of an important point: in the process of confronting what the mainstream does to us (and to all of our brothers and sisters in the community of color), we should not forget that we also have a responsibility to Asian women to acknowledge, confront and overcome sexism within the Asian community. These two tasks cannot be prioritized, one over the other...
...vicious on the phone. We have some ofwhat he said posted on the wall here," says Isaza."He said he would do what he could to make sure Inever got a job in journalism...
Like a man who had struck a deal with the devil, Miles Davis possessed astounding creative powers, but was cursed with a dark, heavy spirit. His music and his mercurial moods -- he sometimes performed with his back to the audience, and a vicious temper coiled behind his hoarse whisper of a voice --made him jazz's most troubled and intensely gifted star at the time of his death...
Artful Equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E's are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered form the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
Uncontrolled warfare was probably one of the main causes for the Maya's eventual downfall. In the centuries after 250 -- the start of what is called the Classic period of Maya civilization -- the skirmishes that were common among competing city-states escalated into full-fledged, vicious wars that turned the proud cities into ghost towns...