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"If there's no role for a Chinaman, there's no role for a Chinaman!" Awards season stretches over more months than anyone has the energy for.

I know when I'm desperate to tweet something funny (because, you know, if you aren't tweeting every two to three minutes, you might DIE), I immediately go for the "Chinaman" material.

I've never been able to track down the deriviation, but it just might have come from "Chinaman's chance".

Those closer to him call him "El Chino" (the Chinaman), for his Maoist leanings during the 1970s.Her only other confidant is her son, Máximo, a college dropout who lives in the far reaches of Patagonia, in the Kirchners' home state.

He sometimes recalled how a Louisville professor he worked for repeatedly addressed him as "Chinaman" and how in the 1950's and 1960's he had run into restrictions against "Orientals and Negroes" in Berkeley's housing market.

In "Chinaman," Jinqiang arrives in present-day California, sent for by a teenager, Upton Wong, who puts him to work doing chores.

Other must-see sites include Dogwood Crossing@Miles and Chinaman's Lagoon for rare waterlilies.

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka, a former advertising copywriter, has won the Commonwealth book prize for his highly praised debut novel Chinaman: the Legend of Pradeep Mathew.

When Peter and everybody else discover Meg attempting to seduce Brian in the hotel, Peter uses the term "Chinaman"; this was changed for the television broadcast to "oriental guy", as "Chinaman" is deemed to be an offensive word.

First, I'd mistakenly believed mocking east Asian people for their speech inflections had died out with Benny Hill's Chinaman skit.

In the end "Ching Chong Chinaman" remains a show that frequently mistakes manic energy for genuine comedy, a good-hearted play in need of a larger measure of nuance.

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