Word: woman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrived," she recalls. "The cultural shock--even the toothpaste tasted different! My desire to go to the States was so vague, yet so strong. It's like going to heaven: you don't plan what happens after you enter." Chen quickly learned what Westerners expected of an Asian woman. On one of her first auditions, she says, "they told me I didn't look Chinese enough, and I was the only Chinese there. I was trying so hard to look like a white woman...
...labor an awfully long time. But it's finally time to break out the cigars. The most admired female architect in the world is bringing forth a veritable brood of buildings. The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first major American art institution to be designed by a woman--let alone a woman born in Baghdad--has a construction starting date of December. A garden exhibition center in Weil am Rhein in Germany, her second building for furniture manufacturer Vitra, opened last month. And Hadid was just named the winner of a worldwide competition for a contemporary-art center...
...only small projects, like restaurant interiors and a fire station, until 1994. That year she was engulfed in another tsunami of publicity when she won the international competition for the opera house in Cardiff, Wales. Almost as soon as her victory was announced, the controversy began. An outspoken Arabic woman proposing an intellectually demanding, uncompromising design in a Britain in which the future king publicly bemoaned the lack of pretty, traditional buildings was destined for a tough time. Slowly the promised funds for that project evanesced. But the seductive stylized drawings and paintings of her work, plus the fact that...
...apparent that Monica Lewinsky is a very immodest young woman who has a great deal to be modest about." KEN HIGSON Kelowna...
...disgraceful that individuals on both sides of the impeachment debate ruined the life of Monica Lewinsky, a decent if politically unsophisticated young woman. She is not one of the people who hurt the country. Her only real "crime" was to insist on controlling her own sex life. Ordinarily, I would be critical of a newsmagazine's neglecting major news issues to spotlight a minor celebrity. But I am happy you gave Monica a chance to defend herself. Perhaps her book profits will compensate in part for all the harm the government has unjustly caused her. DOMINICK FALZONE Los Angeles...