Word: bait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hsing Theater is a forceful reminder that Broadway starves the senses. Performing centuries-old classics. The Beautiful Bait and The White Snake, this Chinese theater troupe refreshes the eye by splashing the stage with color. It fills the air with exotic sounds. It galvanizes the playgoer physically with the grace and discipline of bodily action...
...Beautiful Bait is the superior play and seems like a foray into the enchanted realm of a child's dream. It is acted by wondrously well-trained youngsters, none older than 17. The plot: a wicked prime minister, Tung Cho, tries to overthrow a royal dynasty. A loyal statesman dangles a beautiful girl (Wang Fu-jung) as bait before Tung Cho and his general...
Best bit: Jerry, always helpful, grabs a fish pole from a lady angler when she gets a bite, yanks on it hard, loses the fish, staggers backward, tangles poles with another angler, staggers backward knocking over anglers, poles, bait buckets, lunch baskets and trash cans, till at last he winds up splat in the middle of the first this-is-me-and-the-big-fish-I-caught snapshot ever taken with the subject's head in the fish's mouth...
Nelson toured Wisconsin slowly and deliberately, attacking Wiley for opposing Administration measures such as medicare and the drug bill. After the marathon session of Congress, Wiley finally got home to campaign, took Nelson's bait, and behaved as irascibly as his worst enemy could possibly have hoped. First, he called Nelson a "nitwit." Then, asked by a reporter about his stand on medicare, Wiley roared: "You keep your damn nose out of my business and I'll keep mine out of yours." At a press conference, Wiley answered a reporter's innocuous question by hollering: "Shut...
...show was on Europe's new breed of luxury compacts. Having already lured millions of Europeans into cars designed above all for economy, Europe's automakers are now copying Detroit in an effort to get their customers to trade up to more expensive cars. The bait is a whole new line of small cars that feature such attractions as more lavish interiors, increased acceleration and crisper styling, and cost $200 to $300 more than economy models...