Word: bamboos
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...first arrived four years ago, my Canadian neighbor's dog Genghis-a pug with a self-important streak that rivals that of his namesake?was one of the very few dogs in our Beijing neighborhood. Other people on my street kept pets. There were old men who hitched elegant bamboo cages to their bicycle handlebars every dawn to pedal their songbirds out to the park for a morning of refreshment. There were well-fed crickets, flocks of homing pigeons that hummed through the sky with whistles attached to their tails, the occasional rabbit. Genghis, however, was a novelty; he scared...
...ing?nue when Mann was there, just two years before her breakthrough role in Out of the Past. In fact, she had her first billed role in Mann's Two O'Clock Courage, where, at 20, she is already sultry and spoiled; and she appears again in his The Bamboo Blonde. But Mann apparently didn't see what Greer had: the high forehead, full lips and amoral aura that gave her a drop-dead-with-a-smile-on-your-face sexual charisma. The director let this budding femme fatale languish at the edge of the frame, while...
...novel, narrated by a much solder Kate, unfolds through impressionistic episodes marked by wonder at exotic sights and sounds, from the "laundry strung on bamboo poles" and "rattan birdcages" to the smells of "dried oysters, clove hair oil, joss, [and] tiger balm" in the streets of Hong Kong. But politics are inescapable and an expatriate's distance increasingly difficult to retain. Their father, a photographer at TIME magazine assigned to cover the Vietnam War, has moved to Hong Kong from New York with the idea that, "Hong Kong would be safer than Saigon; an old-fashioned British enclave...
Mohan Ismail, a Singaporean chef most recently at New York's Spice Market, sends out braised beef short ribs in a green curry with tiny, delicate Thai eggplant, slivers of bamboo shoots and baby bok choy. Ismail has toned down the fish sauce, and instead of the rougher texture of ground fresh coconut, his curry gets a silky smoothness from coconut milk and chicken stock and an almost grass green color from cilantro puree. Overton raves but doesn't have a place...
...serious condition, and last week up to 20 were still perishing every day. Despite the addition of four field hospitals, existing facilities are badly overstretched. Bantul's hospital does not have enough beds for all the injured, and some are parked in cots in the hallways or on bamboo mats on the floor. Even the healthy are taking shelter in hospitals. "For every patient you have three to four family members," says Harsaran Pandey, the World Health Organization's spokesperson for Southeast Asia. "A lot of the inpatients [stay] because they and their families have no place...