Word: indians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have you enraptured too: look for a special interview with Jane Campion, director of The Piano and Holy Smoke, in January....Have you ever tried explaining instant replay to somebody who has never heard of it before? My cousin and I tried it the other day when our Indian aunt exclaimed during a football game, What? What's going on? Didn't that just happen? We tried to explain it, but I realized how impossible it is. She ended the conversation once it started getting hostile: No, no. The same thing doesn't happen twice in India...
...shock when the participants at this year's annual Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN) conference, only a few years younger than myself, readily treated me like a grown up. I tried to inform them of their gross mistake. I purposefully dressed more casually. I sat on the floor Indian-style. I even sang horrible Backstreet Boys songs to show I was hip. All this posturing to no avail. The kids were convinced. At first I chalked it up to their own over-eagerness. As the dust settled, however, I realized that I was the one who was mistaken. In fact...
...well have you enraptured too: look for a special interview with Jane Campion, director of The Piano and Holy Smoke, in January....Have you ever tried explaining instant replay to somebody who has never heard of it before? My cousin and I tried it the other day when our Indian aunt exclaimed during a football game, What? Whats going on? Didnt that just happen? We tried to explain it, but I realized how impossible it is. She ended the conversation once it started getting hostile: No, no. The same thing doesnt happen twice in India...
More specifically, the Indian diplomat concentrated his efforts on debunking what he considers myths about the UN, painting the multinational body as more efficient and effective than many Americans believe...
...military bases overseas, where his father was a Navy engineer. When the family settled in San Diego, he started acting in junior high--the first scene he ever played was from (what else?) The Taming of the Shrew. His mix-and-match racial background (African American, German, Scottish, American Indian and maybe a couple of others) didn't stop him from getting roles. "I can kind of play everything because I am everything," he says. He landed a part in TV's Roots: The Next Generations when he was just 20 and spent seven years on Trapper John before shifting...