Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second International Predictors' Conference, like last year's first such get-together in Tokyo, also gave Asia's various astrologers, palmists, bamboo-stick readers and other diviners a chance to understand one another at last. "Fortunetellers are like physicians," Asano explained to TIME Correspondent S. Chang. "You might specialize in one branch, but you don't qualify as a professional unless you have a working knowledge of them all." Fortunetelling in fact is one of the more respected professions in Asia. Practitioners make up to $1,000 a month in Japan, and $500 in South Korea...
Under the bamboo tree...
...teen-ager he moved to Stockholm. "His first day there," his mother recalls, "he asked me if he could go to the athletic field in Sundbyberg. How could I say no? He came home later with two gold medals. He had won the high jump, and then borrowed a bamboo pole and won the pole vault...
...sibling rivalry with Jesus Christ. The time is 1950, and before Heather can make sense out of the Korean War, he is in an enemy prison camp. For reasons that have nothing to do with brainwashing, he chooses to defect to Red China, where he goes bamboo by marrying a pretty Maoist. Aesthetics, not politics, is Heather's thing. Dialectical materialism and the concept of the Holy Trinity appeal to him for their poetic tensions...
...Times'? The paper's twin coup was the result of several elements. Its correspondents have been admirably persistent in knocking on the Bamboo Curtain; Lewis had been trying to get into Hanoi for two years, and from his London base renewed his pleas to North Vietnamese officials in Paris almost monthly. Another factor is the Times's undeniable prestige and influence in the U.S. Both Pyongyang and Hanoi obviously felt that they could benefit from some press exposure in the U.S. at this time, and that the Timesmen were likely to give them a favorable shake...