Word: baba
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...irony is both sad and delicious. The Little Nyonya, a Singaporean television serial about a Chinese Peranakan family that concluded in the middle of January, was told entirely in Mandarin, a language whose creeping bid for dominance in Singapore has lately eclipsed Baba Malay - the pidgin Malay at the heart of Peranakan culture. But in a sly act of revenge, the immensely popular serial triggered a boomlet in all things Peranakan - like the batik fabrics Peranakan women used to stitch their sarong kebayas, worn most famously by Singapore Airlines' stewardesses, or the lavender-and-purple-colored porcelain bowls from which...
...flight, she said, as just coming to Baghdad. She was Kuwaiti, she explained, and had not been to Baghdad in 20 years. She had come to sell a house she owned but had never lived in. "My husband said I must not go, but I must," she told me. "'Baba,' I said, 'It is in God's hands.'" She was particularly nervous because her friends in Baghdad had told her they could not meet her at the airport. She would have to take a taxi or bus to a square nearby and meet them. There were only a handful...
...countryside with his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Eva E.M. Schlitz ’09) to a climactic midnight cemetery scene and, eventually, to an insane asylum. Along the way stops are made in a brothel owned by Mother Goose and at Tom’s wedding to Baba the Turk (Sofia M. Selowsky ’12), London’s most renowned bearded lady.While Auden’s libretto for the most part lacked the moroseness so typical of other renderings of the Faust legend, it stayed true to the deeply introspective nature of the story. Auden?...
...government," said an Iraqi army officer who was present during the negotiations over election security in Khanaqin. "It was Bush, the father, who made a line [in 1991] where the Iraqi army was not allowed to cross. This town is south of the line. [Disputed polling sites in] Sheikh Baba and Jabara are south of the line too. They want to make the Kurdish government as big as they...
...Clark had a big hand in changing the course of the match. With senior Mike Fucito out with a hamstring injury, Clark was forced to reshuffle his usual starting 11. After the Lions opened the scoring against the run of play, Clark changed things around. He brought on freshman Baba Omosegbon for senior Walter Diaz to play in the center of midfield with junior Brian Grimm. Clark then shifted junior Adam Rousmaniere from the center to the right side of midfield, moved sophomore Alex Chi to the left wing, and sent senior John Stamatis up front.The change had an instant...