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发帖数: 1184 | 1 评价的不错
http://www.exurbe.com/?p=2176
“The Borgias” vs. “Borgia: Faith and Fear” (accuracy in historical
fiction)
Posted by exurbe on July 26, 2013 Fandom
BorgiaFrenchTVPoster
A French “Spot the Saint” themed poster for “Borgia: Faith and Fear”
assigning Cesare the attributes: archbishop’s robes, scythe, dagger, bloody
hands, blood. The French caption reads “Don’t have faith in them.” I
can’t argue.
There was a Borgia boom in 2011 when, aiming to capitalize on the commercial
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发帖数: 24733 | 2 Pelosi, Dem leaders slam Rep. Omar over 'anti-Semitic' language
House Democratic leaders on Monday roundly condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn
., for statements slammed as anti-Semitic.
The statement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders
said:
“We are and will always be strong supporters of Israel in Congress because
we understand that our support is based on shared values and strategic
interests. Legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies is protected by the
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 The Terminator Genisys Movie Review for Geeks… Arnie Is Back, Unfortunately
Written by Andre Infante July 3, 2015
All the while I was watching Terminator Genisys, the same phrase kept coming
back to me… “We have to go back in time and kill the screenwriter.”
Terminator Genisys is the latest edition of the Terminator series, a
property rivaled only by the Alien series for turning two great films into
an awful franchise. The last two entries, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
and Terminator Salva... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 202 | 7 http://www.mitbbs.com/news_wenzhang/MiscNews/31239737.html
编者按：中国威风凛凛的崛起经常标上回归历史正常水平。普遍的说法认为在过去5000
年的大部分时间，中国是世界财富、文化、科技和权力的中心。Mitbbs.com
China’s awe-inspiring rise is often framed as the return to a historical
norm. A common belief is that for most of the last 5,000 years, China was
the world’s center of wealth, culture, technology, and power. The 19th and
20th centuries, we are told, were a brief aberration, and China is now
simply retaking its rightful place as the world’s preeminent nation.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7077 | 8 【 以下文字转载自 Hubei 讨论区 】
发信人: kayaka (jimm), 信区: Hubei
标 题: Nice piece of article about the jews
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue May 24 04:28:26 2011, 美东)
说中国人很反犹，真他妈搞笑。中国有很多人崇犹就提都不提了。
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/whats-up-with-t
It’s been an interesting week or two for Jews. Mel Gibson’s new film, “
The Beaver,” opens nationwide in theaters and Jews must decide whether to
pay good money to see a movie starring someone whose father is a Holocaust
denier, and who has himself vilified Jews in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 9 让犹太纳粹给点名了
The West’s Shameful Demonization of Israel
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/the-wests-shame
After watching Chuck Hagel’s embarrassing performance in his confirmation
hearings, I can’t decide if he’s a bigot, a paleocon isolationist, or just
plain stupid. I suspect the latter, given his statement, “If confirmed, I
intend to know a lot more than I do.” More significant is the fact that he
was nominated at all, given his record of gaffes, his use of anti-Semitic
tropes like... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 10 The Charleston shooter killed mostly black women. This wasn't about 'rape'
Before opening fire – and reportedly reloading five times – the man who
killed nine black people at the historic Emmanuel AME church in Charleston,
South Carolina on Wednesday night, reportedly said: “You rape our women.
And you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” (Dylann Roof has
been arrested in North Carolina and is expected to be charged with the crime
.) According to police, three of the people who died ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 11 “Quite frankly, the trope that China copies the U.S. hasn’t been true for
years, and in mobile it’s the opposite: The U.S. often copies China,” said
Ben Thompson, the founder of the tech research firm Stratechery. “For the
Facebook Messenger app, for example, the best way to understand their road
map is to look at WeChat.”
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发帖数: 20965 | 12 是啊
美国华人
高考精英
基本都成了废物。产出可能不如国内生三个小黄人的农村大妈
: “Quite frankly, the trope that China copies the U.S. hasn’t been
true for
: years, and in mobile it’s the opposite: The U.S. often copies China,
” said
: Ben Thompson, the founder of the tech research firm Stratechery. “
For the
: Facebook Messenger app, for example, the best way to understand their
road
: map is to look at WeChat.”
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发帖数: 8291 | 13 China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/technology/china-mobile-tech-innovation-silicon-valley.html?_r=0
“Quite frankly, the trope that China copies the U.S. hasn’t been true for
years, and in mobile it’s the opposite: The U.S. often copies China,” said
Ben Thompson, the founder of the tech research firm Stratechery. “For the
Facebook Messenger app, for example, the best way to understand their road
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发帖数: 6999 | 14 Rather than amp up the nerdy, academic, and socially awkward traits
typically assigned to Asian parts (again, see Sixteen Candles for its racist
characterization of transfer student Long Duk Dong) Szeto instead infuses
the role with the panache of a seasoned professional. His gravitas erases
any preconceived notions audiences might have about Asian students. Szeto
concedes that kids that resemble those stereotypes do exist; they're very
real people who deserve to see themselves represented on TV... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4736 | 15 一个韩寒一样的sb青年， 读了两次大学都读不下去退学滚蛋的社会混混，有什么资格
在Berkeley 演讲？ 还要让Berkeley 关门？
free speech？ free speech 可以去厕所 free speech 嘛，一个gay，别祸害人小孩
子了。
University of Manchester (withdrew)
Wolfson College, Cambridge (withdrew)
His own sexuality
While Yiannopoulos is gay, he has stated that gay rights are detrimental to
humanity, and that gay men should "get back in the closet".[98] He has
described being gay as "aberrant" and "a lifestyle choice guaranteed to
bring [gay people] pain and unhappiness".[99] He has said... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1619 | 16 WTF?
Inside President Trump’s otherwise “standard Trump stump speech” at CPAC
was nestled what might be a most intriguing observation:
Global cooperation, dealing with other countries, getting along with other
countries is good, it’s very important. But there is no such thing as a
global anthem, a global currency or a global flag. This is the United States
of America that I’m representing.
There's a keen insight in there that could, just maybe, transform our lives,
America, and the world. No "gl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 17 最近借着黑豹的东风涌现出很多新词儿，让人迎接不暇，什么是Afrofuturism？
How the Afrofuturism behind Black Panther and Get Out combines social
justice and sci-fi
Afrofuturist ideas are at the core of both films.
In the fictional African nation of Wakanda, beads made of “vibranium” heal
bullet wounds, and a bulletproof suit absorbs and stores the energy of
hostile blows. Levitating trains cruise past vaulting skyscrapers with
thatched roofs, as saucer-shaped aircraft carve arcs in the sky.
Wakanda, a fantasy nation that serves... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 18 我可以看得到，copy paste将就看下吧
Image
CreditCreditPhoto illustration by Joan Wong. Photographs by Ronghui Chen for
The New York Times.
Skip to content
Skip to site index
Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans?
A high-profile lawsuit against Harvard is forcing students and their
families to choose sides.
CreditCreditPhoto illustration by Joan Wong. Photographs by Ronghui Chen for
The New York Times.
By Jay Caspian Kang
Photographs by Ronghui Chen
Published Aug. 28, 2019
Updated Sept. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2165 | 19 说中国人吃不饱肚子，所以生吃蝙蝠和蛇
Fox News
The Fox News personality Jesse Watters on Monday invoked racist tropes about
China and demanded that the country formally apologize over the novel
coronavirus.
"I'll tell you why it started in China," Watters said amid laughter from his
cohosts. "Because they have these markets where they are eating raw bats
and snakes."
Scientists and journalism organizations have urged the media "to ensure
accurate and fair portrayals of Asians and Asian-Americans" by not fueling
xe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1822 | 20 General Idea: Haute Culture at the AGO( Art Gallery Ontario )
July 2011 - January 2012
Murray Whyte
Allow me a moment to state the abundantly obvious: General Idea, the
three-man collective founded in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge
Zontal, is the most significant, famous and influential art beast, single or
otherwise, to emerge from Toronto, if not Canada, in the last half of the
20th century.
For those who care to argue (seriously?), I have one suggestion: Go to
the Art Ga... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 21 Just in time for Valentine's Day, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire
signed into law a marriage equality bill that was introduced in the
legislature just weeks before. Gregoire told supporters that February 13
would be "a day that historians will mark as a milestone for equal rights,"
when Washington "finally said yes to marriage equality. The sky-will-fall
rhetoric is simply not true."
But equality opponents begged to differ, and within days of the bill's
passage began to gather signatures ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 The phony ‘consensus’ on climate change
The end is near ...
... that is, for the myth that scientists have reached "consensus" on global
warming and climate change caused by humans.
The theory (more accurately called a religion for the redistribution of
wealth) has taken a number of body blows in recent times -- although the
climate-change lobby is still straining to impose its view on the world. For
example, Time magazine issued a screed headlined "Who's Bankrolling the
Climate-Change Deniers?"... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 I'm really struggling to work out what all the fuss is about over this one.
It seems to me to be much ado about nothing. Breaking news: Mitt Romney is
very rich. He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity and to
the taxman.
In the early hours of this morning, some 550 pages of Mitt Romney's tax
returns and a 2011 tax summary were released by his campaign. Just after
dawn, there was a long campaign conference call for bleary-eyed reporters in
which an accountant (who sounded exactly... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Arrogant Democrats Think They Have Role to ‘Protect’ Titanic Wreck Site
April 15, 2012 |
by Warner Todd Huston
The Titanic sunk 100 years ago this year. The great ship went down in
international waters as a vessel of British registry. When it went down the
United States was barely a presence on the international stage. Yet now, 100
years later, American Democrats imagine they have the duty and power to
control what will happen at the final resting place of over 1,500 passengers.
In their arrogan... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Obama’s New Lie – No Funding For Embassy Security Was The Problem
October 11, 2012 by Doug Johnson
Libyagate has team Obama reeling. Here’s David Axelrod on CNN’s Starting
Point with Soledad O’Brien (video) trotting out the new Obama spin on how
they weren’t really lying about the attack in Libya and trying to pin the
blame on Republicans. It’s really quite comical:
“Well, the role of the White House was to convey the information that
we were receiving from our intelligence people on the gr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 26 How Stupid is Obama?
By J.R. Dunn
We've long been aware that the One is not quite the superior intellect he
was sold as. Obama, we were told, was the rare possessor of a mind with the
profundity of a Socrates, the breadth of a Goethe, and the penetration of a
Newton. An intellect unrivaled on the current American political scene,
and possibly without equal in this country's politics since the beginning.
Events have certainly demolished that little trope. Within weeks of the
inauguration, some... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 by Jammie
The president has been decrying the growing gap between rich and poor in
the U.S. to help sell his retread tax-and-spend proposals. But those
policies have already produced record levels of income inequality.
In his speech in Illinois last week, and at events since, Obama
described income inequality in the starkest terms. “This growing inequality
is morally wrong,” he said, and “undermines the very essence of America.”
To be sure, income inequality is a standard trope for l... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 28 The West must stand up for freedom—and acknowledge the link between
Islamists’ political ideology and their religious beliefs.
By
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Jan. 7, 2015 6:08 p.m. ET
After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of
useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical
Islam.
This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was
not an “un-Islamic” attac... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 29 The Charleston shooter killed mostly black women. This wasn't about 'rape'
Before opening fire – and reportedly reloading five times – the man who
killed nine black people at the historic Emmanuel AME church in Charleston,
South Carolina on Wednesday night, reportedly said: “You rape our women.
And you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” (Dylann Roof has
been arrested in North Carolina and is expected to be charged with the crime
.) According to police, three of the people who died ... 阅读全帖 |
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b******r
发帖数: 1619 | 30 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: bmwlover (bmwlover), 信区: Military
标 题: President Trump: Replace the Dollar with Gold as the Global Currency to Make America Great Again
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 27 20:57:31 2017, 美东)
WTF?
Inside President Trump’s otherwise “standard Trump stump speech” at CPAC
was nestled what might be a most intriguing observation:
Global cooperation, dealing with other countries, getting along with other
countries is good, it’s very important. But there is no such thing as a
globa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 41 | 33 楼主 看到 你 isDiffByOne 函数就知道你必然要超时
Leetcode免费给你用 就别挑剔了。凡事要先从自身找问题
你那个测试不是大数据
真正的大数据在这里：
start = "nanny";
end = "aloud";
String[] d = {"ricky","grind","cubic","panic","lover","farce","gofer
","sales","flint","omens","lipid","briny","cloth","anted","slime","oaten","
harsh","touts","stoop","cabal","lazed","elton","skunk","nicer","pesky","
kusch","bused","kinda","tunis","enjoy","aches","prowl","babar","rooms","
burst","slush","pines","urine","pinky","bayed","mania","light","flare","
wares","wom... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 47 | 34 住了将近2年的apartment，最近搬家，被房东恶意扣留deposit，准备走法律程序。贡
献一个刚写的给房东的信，大家建议并参考哈。（事情进展我会跟进）
主要参考这个网页内容：
http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/sec-deposit.sht
owner address
Hi ***,
This is ***, who rent your apartment (address) from ... to ..., 2014. I’m
writing to you for the refunding of my security deposit (1795$, as evidenced
in attached contract copy) since right now I get nothing from you.
Under California law (Civil Code Section 1950.5(g)(1)), 21 calendar days or
less after my move, by ...20... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1160 | 35 http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/its-no
It's Not Just Frozen: Most Disney Movies Are Pro-Gay
By preaching acceptance and questioning gender, the company's kids films
offer a queer-studies crash course.
AKASH NIKOLASAPR 23 2014, 8:01 AM ET
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Disney
The culture warriors have decided: Disney’s Frozen is queer. Elsa hiding
her ice-powers could be read as a metaphor for the closet, the Oscar-winning
“Let it Go” plays like a coming-out anthem, and a character in t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 18037 | 36 上上星期在纽约版贴了这个影片的告示，但是忘了贴台湾版，不知道布教授和奶油豆同学有否去看？明後天最後两天了。
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Casting Light on Taiwanese Cinema
By MIKE HALE
Published: May 8, 2011
At the turn of the century Taiwanese cinema had a moment, albeit a quiet one that the average American filmgoer probably missed. Edward Yang’s magnificent family drama “Yi Yi” was named the best film of 2000, in any language, by the National Society of Film Critics. Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-Liang, Mr. Yang’s compatriots in t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 47 | 37 住了将近2年的apartment，最近搬家，被房东恶意扣留deposit，准备走法律程序。贡
献一个刚写的给房东的信，大家建议并参考哈。（事情进展我会跟进）
主要参考这个网页内容：
http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/sec-deposit.sht
owner address
Hi ***,
This is ***, who rent your apartment (address) from ... to ..., 2014. I’m
writing to you for the refunding of my security deposit (1795$, as evidenced
in attached contract copy) since right now I get nothing from you.
Under California law (Civil Code Section 1950.5(g)(1)), 21 calendar days or
less after my move, by ...20... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2400 | 38 Rob LaZebnik, a writer for “The Simpsons,” tells WSJ’s Gary Rosen what he
would have said to the Class of 2013—if anyone had considered him remotely
qualified to address smart, high-achieving, oversexed young people.
谢谢校长，谢谢校董们。
我必须承认，今天来到这儿演讲使我的脑海中冒出一个问题：现在的高中生都那么有才
华，学习又如此刻苦，如果放在今日，我还能被这所我于25年前毕业的名牌文科高校录
取吗？对此我非常好奇，于是我联系了学校的一名招生人员，请她找出我以前的申请材
料并迅速给我一个意见。
事实证明这么做大错特错。她不仅以“绝对不能录取”回答我，几天之后我还收到一封
信，通知我说我已被自己的母校追溯过往、拒绝录取了。更糟糕的是，他们还筛选了我
申请入学那一年整个柜子的申请材料，决定撤销我73%的同学的入学资格。
如果这其中包括今天在座的任何家长，我真的很抱歉。我已经把... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4527 | 39 到时候把结果update 一下， 我很感兴趣
http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/evictions.shtml
Home
Consumers
Media
Publications
Online Services
The Eviction Process
California Tenants, A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights
and Responsibilities
(Unlawful Detainer Lawsuit)
Overview of the eviction process
If the tenant doesn't voluntarily move out after the landlord has properly
given the required notice to the tenant, the landlord can evict the tenant.
In order to evi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9385 | 40 The term nostalgia describes a sentimentality for the past, typically for a
period or place with happy personal associations.[1] The word is a learned
formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos),
meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos),
meaning "pain, ache", and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to
describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from
home. Described as a medical condition—a form of melancholy—in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 41 这位在the wire里也活下来，还升官了。
Though there’s no way to verify the notion in a peer-reviewed study,
African American men would likely have as much chance of survival as any
other demographic in the event of an actual zombie apocalypse. Of course,
they might fall victim to a corrupt, racist military state should one arise
out of the ashes of the world as we know it. But absent outright post-
apocalyptic discrimination, anyone who can run and wield a weapon has an
equal chance against those who return fro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 82482 | 43 In fan fiction, a Mary Sue is an idealized character representing the author.
The term "Mary Sue" comes from the name of a character created by Paula
Smith in 1973 for her parody story "A Trekkie's Tale"[2]:15 published in her
fanzine Menagerie #2.[3] The story starred Lieutenant Mary Sue ("the
youngest Lieutenant in the fleet — only fifteen and a half years old"), and
satirized unrealistic Star Trek fan fiction.[4] Such characters were
generally original female adolescents who had romantic liai... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2009 | 44 Avatar is not just another white-man-save-the-day movie. As a black
woman and a cultural anthropologist born in Haiti, I had doubts about
the depiction of race in the film.
Before seeing Avatar, I worked on resisting the urge to categorize this
film as yet another Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai or Pocahontas
redux as some critics have dubbed it. White-man-gone-native is the
favored trope that mainstream Hollywood writers use when exploring
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发帖数: 1542 | 45 转一篇影评，主题我理解为：进入上流社会的代价
Some people are born with good looks or with the natural hand-eye
coordination necessary to hit a fast ball. Others come from money or are
naturally charismatic; they draw people to them in a way that just can’t be
learned. Then there’s the rest of us. We’re nothing special. We’ll never
be those people. We look at them and say it’s ok, but can’t even convince
ourselves. Whether we choose to admit it or not, we want to be them or at
least gain their approval. We want those ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6999 | 46 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: fuckthrust (...), 信区: Military
标 题: 看看媒体怎么评价亚裔男在电影“edge of 17”的形象
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 23 16:44:29 2016, 美东)
Rather than amp up the nerdy, academic, and socially awkward traits
typically assigned to Asian parts (again, see Sixteen Candles for its racist
characterization of transfer student Long Duk Dong) Szeto instead infuses
the role with the panache of a seasoned professional. His gravitas erases
any preconceived notions audiences might have about Asian studen... 阅读全帖 |
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r****r
发帖数: 755 | 47 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_%22crisis%22
In the Simpsons episode "Fear Of Flying" (Episode 2F08, 12/18/94), Lisa
Simpson tries to encourage Homer by saying that the Chinese use the same
word for crisis and opportunity. Homer then says, "Ah, yes, crisitunity!"[9]
[10]
The use of the term probably gained momentum when John F. Kennedy delivered
a speech in Indianapolis on April 12, 1959:[3]
When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters.
One represen... 阅读全帖 |
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b******g
发帖数: 3616 | 48 看了这篇文章，还能将进博物馆、卖高价与艺术价值划等号么？
______________________________________________
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-fo
Peter Lik is in awe of himself. When he describes his career as a fine-art
photographer, he speaks with the satisfaction of a guy who has performed
miracles, at the pace of a bystander who just caught a glimpse of Superman.
The words tumble forth in self-exalting, run-on sentences, most of them
laced with profanity, all of them in the sunny, chummy accent of... 阅读全帖 |
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d******u
发帖数: 47 | 49 我最近也是遇到同样的问题，房东说我们搬出来以后（住了约2年）木地板太脏，卫生
间，厨房太脏。然后把木地板翻新（磨掉一层再打蜡），厨房卫生间地板翻新（非瓷砖
非木地板，类似于地板纸？）。告诉我他总共花了2000多，所以把我们的1400$押金全
扣。
非常气愤，幸好搬进去搬出来的时候留有地板照片。然后就气愤的先给他写了第一封
certified mail：
621 N. Stanley Ave.
Los Angeles, CA90036
Hi Joseph Sauer,
This is 。。。, who rent your apartment (address) from March 19, 2012 to
February 9, 2014. I’m writing to you to request full refund of my security
deposit (1395$, after deducting 400$ rent for Feb. 2014 from total 1795$
deposit, as evidenced in attached contract co... 阅读全帖 |
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