Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hawaii; the ship's English captain, James Cook, mapped the island, which he spelled Mowee.* Though Hana can be reached in minutes by air, driving there is half the fun. The shoestring road, with 617 switchback bends and 56 one-way bridges, bumples through a jungle of bamboo, fern, maune loa vines, breadfruit, mango, banyan, banana, kukui and hau trees, perfumed by guava and wild ginger. Then, out of the forest and into the breeze, the white-knuckled driver arrives at the Hotel Hana-Maui, an island landmark...
...Viet Nam. China alleged that Hanoi's troops had intruded into its territory on 1,100 different occasions. Viet Nam accused China of almost daily incursions. Charges and countercharges enlivened every artillery barrage and exchange of small-arms fire, not to mention kidnaping, livestock rustling and planting of poisoned bamboo stakes. In its loud political buildup to the invasion, China underscored the border aggravations to anyone who would listen?at the U.N., in diplomatic exchanges, and in a shower of communiques. Peking also claimed that Viet Nam was mobilizing for war by drafting recruits at a rate that surpassed...
...through one another and supported on pebbles, by Michael Singer. Its ancestor is Giacometti's famous surrealist construction of the 1930s, The Palace at 4 a.m.−there is a similar feeling of spindliness, fragility and, isolated in its museum cell, of mystery. Though it suggests other cultures (bamboo lattices, fish traps, grave-marker posts), it does not do so in a sloppy, metaphorical way. At 33, Singer is clearly an artist worth watching...
Peking may never rival Paris as a fixture on the international travel circuit, but the gradual parting of the Bamboo Curtain in the 1970s has enabled more and more foreigners to see the wonders of the Middle Kingdom. This year, 100,000 foreign tourists and businessmen-including 15,000 Americans?will visit China, and next year the total could double. What most visitors bring back, besides snapshots of the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs, are horror stories about the accommodations. Hotel rooms are hard to get, ah" conditioning is rare, and such Western amenities as bars, saunas and swimming...
Some of the most attractive handicraft objects are to be found at small stores off the tourist track: lacquered woven bamboo handbags, hand-painted nesting boxes in all shapes, ceramic poudriers that could be used as cigarette boxes, silken parasols, cloisonne bangles. Many of these eyecatching, easily stowed artifacts are sold in the U.S. for ten times the going price in China...