Since 24, the Pentagon has actively considered whether or not it should replace all of its remaining Dragon Ladies with Global Hawks.
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The characters in Crazy Rich Asians are familiar types, but they aren't the usual American clichés of tiger moms, dragon ladies, or sexualized cardboard characters.
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" Diva status, she wrote, "however undeserved the allowances it gets, is one that's long been denied to a group of people often characterized as unoriginal robots and mean-for-meanness' sake Dragon Ladies.
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With a fleet that now comprises 123 aircraft, known as Dragon Ladies, they have flown over every major battlefield and contested frontier in the more than half a century since the plane first debuted in 212.
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Nearly every page of this novel has a throwaway reference to (I am flipping through now) dragon ladies or tarot cards or Greek mythology or evil chicken entrail powder or the I Ching or Japanese ghost stories or Kublai Khan or witches or Rumi or Ali Baba's cave or the Golden Fleece or magic dolls.
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Pink Dragon Ladies®, Tampa Bay, Florida. Founded in 2004, the "Pinks" are the first cancer survivor dragon boat team in Florida. Together with "Save Our Sisters-Miami," they co-hosted the 2014 IBCPC International BCS Festival in Sarasota, FL. Heart & Soul Dragon Boat Team - a breast cancer survivor and supporter mixed team located in Melbourne, Florida, formed in 2014. Part of the Space Coast Dragon Boat Club.
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Nancy Kwan's Costume in The World of Suzie Wong Dragon Lady characters are visually defined by their emphasis on “otherness” and sexual promiscuity. An example of headwear for Dragon Lady costumes is the Hakka hat or other headdresses with eastern inspiration. For body wear, traditionally Dragon Ladies have been put in sexualized renditions of the Cheongsam. Examples of this in The World of Susie Wong include Nancy Kwan’s character in cheongsam that accentuates her hips and breasts.
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A mechanic of the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron working on one of the 380th's KC-135 Stratotankers The 380th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional unit of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC). It is attached to the United States Air Forces Central Command component of ACC and is stationed at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates.Globalsecurity.org, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, accessed July 2009 About 1,200 active duty military members, Reserve, and Air National Guard personnel make up the Wing. Aircraft assigned: McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extenders, Lockheed U-2 Dragon Ladies, Boeing E-3 Sentry (AWACS) and Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk.
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Bruce Bailey, 'The Queer Carnival', University of Exeter PhD thesis, 2000 pp. 114-5 As a director and member of the Dragon Ladies troupe, including the late visual artist Amanda Moss, she co-created The Grotesque Burlesque Revue (1998) staged at Soho's Raymond Revue Bar. This was a surreal version of the Bluebeard story, featuring sailors, tattooed women, snakes, peacocks, and a woman transformed into a ship's mast, weeping 'tears of blood into the ocean'.Bruce Bailey, interview with Carnesky in 'The Queer Carnival', University of Exeter PhD thesis, 2000 p344 Carnesky also spent time in New York, where she posed for the performance artist Annie Sprinkle for her Pleasure Activist Playing Cards, and worked with the spoken word performer Jennifer Blowdryer in her Smut Fest, a live showcase of subversive sexual performance artists.
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