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...Buffett stayed in Florida and settled in Key West. The shrimpers' bars suited him perfectly: "I could go out at night and come home with a hell of a story." From the sandy Key West beaches sprang a string of albums during the next few years. Among them: AI A, named for the access road near his home, Havana Daydreamin' and the waggishly titled A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean...
...arranged in the traditional way by his parents and was never consummated. His second wife was Yang K'ai-hui, daughter of one of his teachers and mother of their three sons. She was beheaded in 1930 by the Nationalists...
During what was in the West "the Renaissance," Chinese painters from the area around Lake T'ai, the Yangtze River, and Mt. Huang (known as "the eye area" for its geographical appearance and importance to Chinese art) split into two groups, according to their acceptance or rejection of the patronage of the art-collecting emperors. The scholars and "amateur" painters (those who did not earn their living by their art) were freer to develop individual styles than were the members of the court academy, who worked in the imperial cities. The former, often political exiles, lived and painted quietly...
...your fingers do the walking and these days they stumble at almost every step over yoga parlors, t'ai chi ranches, Scientology centers, Subud temples, Sufi congregations, TM ashrams, Hare Krishna missions, Zen monasteries, astrology academies and tarot prophets. The flyways from East to West are dense with flocks of migratory swamis who come bearing wisdom and go lugging gold. A bazaar of the bizarre if ever there was one, and its most exotic merchandise, the pearl beyond price, is something known as brahmacaryam, samadhi, marafat or, in plain English, the mystical experience...
According to the handful of foreigners who were present, the protest soon expanded into a general expression of rage against the radical drift of Chinese politics since Chou's death. One eulogy pinned to a memorial wreath pointedly praised Mao's late second wife Yang K'ai-hui-an unmistakable slight to the Chairman's current (and fourth) wife, Radical Leader Chiang Ch'ing, who is Teng's implacable enemy. Even more astonishing, a poem circulated at the protest read: "Gone for good is Ch'in Shih Huang feudal society...