Word: woo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Yuko Toyoda thought she was Japanese. After all, she spoke Japanese and looked like her other elementary school friends. But shortly before she entered the third grade, her parents told her that her real name was Kang Woo Ja and she was actually Korean. Woo Ja, surprised but not dismayed, announced her true identity to her classmates, and some of them promptly taunted her. It was her first encounter with Japan's lingering prejudice against Koreans, but it was not likely to be her last...
...spite of the optimism with which the formation of the Democratic Liberal Party was welcomed four months ago, its fortunes are already going downhill. At the national elections in 1987, President Roh Tae Woo received only 36% of the vote, and his party was stymied for two years by an opposition-controlled national assembly. So when two of the three rival parties joined Roh's group to form the D.L.P., which now holds 218 of the 299 parliamentary seats, it looked as if Roh's promised "democratization" program of liberal reforms would be pushed ahead. Opinion polls showed an approval...
...McLuhanite world around us. His is an America, in 1984, in which reflexes, values, even feelings have been programmed by that All- Seeing Deity known as the Tube. Remaking us in its own image (every seven days), TV consumes us much more than we do it. Lovers woo one another on screens, interface with friends, cite TV sets as corespondents in divorce trials. And the children who have grown up goggle-eyed around the electric altar cannot believe that anything is real unless it comes with a laugh track: they organize their emotions around commercial breaks and hope to heal...
...Shamir is trying to form a narrow coalition with the demanding right wing. To woo it, his caretaker government has been raiding the nation's coffers to build new Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Christian quarter of Jerusalem. "Our leadership is morally unworthy of leading this country," says Uriel Reichman, dean of the law faculty at Tel Aviv University...
...romantic comedy lies at the heart of the production. As the play opens, timid Robin Oakapple (Michael Short) is attempting to woo the lovely Rose Maybud (Karen Thompson). Unable to overcome his shyness and reveal his true feelings, Robin instead convinces Richard Dauntless (Colum Amory), his foster brother, to talk to Rose for him. When the seafaring Richard sees the charming Rose, he breaks his promise to Robin and becomes engaged to Rose himself...