Word: buckteeth
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...This counterpoint of seriousness and play manifests itself most fundamentally in the artwork. The characters appear mostly in a silly "cartoon" style, with tropes like exaggerated brows, buckteeth and expressive eyes. (Tezuka defies expectations of what Japanese "manga" looks like.) These caricatures are then set against highly detailed backgrounds, with Tezuka often taking extra panels, or even entire two-page spreads, just to linger on the environments. He has such a mastery of the form that while providing every necessary panel to tell the story he has extra space just for breathing room. A temple sits stoically in the woods...
...fragments of her life and loves by observing the natural wonders around her. She learns how stars and flowers were defined with the same Coptic words, and exchanges poems with wise, sand-hardened guides. Even when she goes fishing, she comes upon the "green unicorn fish," which uses its buckteeth to eat coral, and the "apricot-yellow" boxfish, which resembles "a lovely joke, a gift for a friend." The northern side of the Ras Benas peninsula of the Red Sea, she writes, is "a treasure trove of odd objects from around the world." In that regard, it is a perfect...
Just as the word "Negro" is defined by the dictionary in the same way as the now preferable term "African-American," it projects an extra meaning due to its association with racial segregation and oppression. In the same way, over-slanted eyes and buckteeth dredge up negative associations with early Hollywood depictions of Chinese-Americans...
...disturbed by the content of what Conley intends (I assume) to say in his cartoon, but by the meaning contained in the images of over-slanted eyes and buckteeth. Perhaps Conley meant only to capture the Chinese face, as he perceives it. Even if this is so, however, he misses out on the negative semiological connotation not of the Chinese face itself, but of the Chinese face portrayed in this...
...spot with the "Starlight Roof" revue at the London Hippodrome. On her first night she stopped the show with an incredible F above high ¶in Titania's aria in Mignon. Immediately, her parents' agent, "Uncle Charlie" Tucker, moved in, arranged to get Julie's buckteeth straightened. Within a year, she was belting out her "bastardized opera" in a special command performance. "You sang beautifully, Julie," Her Majesty, now the Queen Mother, told her. She had become, at 13, the family's prime breadwinner...