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However, there are several phrases which had the effect on us, while reading them, of sitting down to a delightfully relaxing manicure occasionally punctuated by hot bamboo slivers driven up the nails. The phrase in question is (referring to the score) ". some fairly forgettable tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1960 | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...militia commander prodded old Wong until he was satisfied that Wong really could not move. Then, on command, one soldier stepped forward, shot Wong through the head. As Kou and the other commune workers watched, the soldiers trussed Wong's wrists and ankles and slung him over a bamboo pole like a freshly slaughtered hog. All of a sudden, the workers began to chant: "We won't work! We won't work! We won't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Flight of Refugees From China | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...duty, Oregon's headline-hankering Democratic Representative Charles Orlando Porter last June sniffed the air, caught scents of legislative duty calling him to Red China. The State Department denied him a special visa, refusing to exempt him from its blanket ban on U.S. citizens' going behind the Bamboo Curtain. Porter promptly sued, claimed violation of his constitutional rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals last week upheld a lower court decision against Porter. The decision: Porter rates no better than any other citizen in trying to crash State's travel barrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 25, 1960 | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

...accompanied by Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik played by a visiting string orchestra-is described with more good faith than taste; her death seems to have liberated Regler from bitterness and the wish to judge. As a gesture against political bullies back home, Marie Louise once carried a bamboo blowpipe to puff pepper into the eyes of German police; pity had made her, too, willing to blind someone. Symbolically, Regler buried the pepper gun with her in her coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ghost Walks | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

...force transports and two Indian airlines cargo planes began airdropping 40 tons of rice daily. Mizo Hills Christians in their little palm-thatched village churches, and animists who still worship nature deities, offered concerted prayers that when the April rains turn the brown hills to emerald green, the bamboo will not bear its evil blossoms again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Flowers of Evil | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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