Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sonic Youth CD is like taking a holiday. Not an easy vacation like, say, skiing in Vail, but more like an adventure tour, the musical equivalent of climbing a particularly high peak without bottled oxygen. Traditional rock can be a sad grind--for example, on Eric Clapton's wan new CD, Pilgrim, one of the few listenable songs, Sick and Tired, turns out to have disturbing lyrics about threatening to blow out a woman's brains...
...team of Wan and She cruised to an 8-0 victory in doubles, while the team of Hricko and Jain won its match...
...often been asked to stand aside, to let their concerns be subsumed by the greater cause of group solidarity. Simply put, many APA activists have prioritized race over oppressions of gender, class, and sexuality, effectively silencing those who might question the terms of this "racial solidarity." As Jian Wan Chen's story illustrates, this silencing comes with heinous consequences...
...Sept. 7, 1987, Jian Wan Chen's husband, Dong Lu Chen, smashed her skull in with a claw hammer after she allegedly admitted to having an affair. Chen's teenage son discovered her body in the family's Brooklyn apartment. The trial judge sentenced Dong to five years probation on a reduced manslaughter charge after concluding, based on the testimony of an anthropologist, that Dong was driven to violence by traditional Chinese values...
Does this mean that Jian Wan Chen's status as an Asian sister is negligible when weighed against the call to stand in solidarity with "the race," a call that implies and obscures the privileging of a particular gender? What about the Asian American lesbian and sweatshop workers: should they also subordinate their concerns and silence themselves in solidarity with "the race...