Word: customizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rhinestone collar w/name and electronic cat door opener"; about women from Los Angeles hiring migrant workers to wait in line for them to buy watches shaped like cucumbers or bacon and eggs. On Hollywood Boulevard I saw a HISTORIC LANDMARK sign outside the site of "The First Custom T-Shirt Shop in California," flyers on the wall promoting a group called Venal Opulence and, in a store across the street, "Confucius X-Rated Mini-Condom Fortune Cookies." No wonder, I thought, that when I tell people I live in California -- worse, that I choose to live in California -- they look...
Directed by Anton Quist, Our Husband, a slapstick comedy set in Nigeria, revolves around Rahman Taslim Lejoka-Brown. In keeping with Nigerian custom, which allows a man to have as many wives as he can handle, Lejoka-Brown has two--well, three actually, but Liza, who lives in America, thinks she is the only one. Her arrival in Nigeria provides the spark for comical confusion, as Lejoka-Brown struggles to maintain his home and political career...
...Private Ear gives the audience a peek at the darker, more complex side of relationships, thanks to some custom-crafted performances by the main characters and a short but sharp plot...
Perhaps this explains why the book retains the freshness of the spoken word and is extremely accessible. It reads quickly and describes native practice and custom in simple terms. Australian translator Max Lane provides a convenient glossary of frequently used Indonesian words, but one can understand the book without referring...
...instance, even though Minke is aware of the pull of old custom, he is a wholly modern figure. Upon meeting the Nyai--a woman stigmatized in Indonesian society--he wonders, "Should I offer my hand as to a European woman, or should I treat her as a Native woman and ignore...