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...reprise of her real-life cross-racial relationship with Ted Danson, Whoopi Goldberg stars "Corrina, Corrina" as the yin to Ray Liotta's yang. As the ever-helpful, racially suppressed and mischievous maid Corrina (pronounced Core-ee-na), Goldberg delivers what is a lackluster performance...
...itself -- but the chef is not without cunning outside the kitchen. His children are not aware of that, nor can they see that his meals are metaphors for love; they see them as a form of torture added to their other torments. The eldest, Jia-Jen (Kuei-Mei Yang), is a spinster schoolteacher, pining for a lost love but beginning to moon over the cute new gym teacher. The youngest, Jia-Ning (Yu-Wen Wang), is rebelling by working in a fast-food restaurant and taking a lover who reads Dostoyevsky and rides a motorcycle. In the middle...
...Philosphies throughout history have recognized opposing forces in nature, basic dualities in the world. Call it an inescapable antinomy, call it the yin versus the yang, call it the salty snack versus the sugary snack. Well, basketball versus volleyball is just one of these elemental oppositions. Should you wind the net up in a circle and throw things in it, or stretch it out and throw things over...
...Jeff Yang, editor-in-chief of the Asian-American quarterly A, criticized some Asian-American authors for propagating stereotypes of Asian-Americans...
...particular, Yang singled out for criticism Amy Tan, author of the popular Joy Luck Club, and Maxine Hong Kingston, who wrote Woman Warrior...