Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were acting a part which required me to stand on my hands, I could do it." His Paris Burning producers, he recalls, wanted him "to speak French or English for the Von Choltitz part, but I could not; it would change things." Probe's intuition has proved bang-on; his spitting out of the traditional Junker officer's accent is breathtakingly authentic...
...nation violently divided. The Koryo dynasty was challenged by the House of Yi, and civil war was in the air. At this dangerous juncture Jong Mong-ju, a minister loyal to the old dynasty, paid a courtesy call on King Taejo, the father of Yi Bang-won, the leading strategist of the opposition. His host's son, in salutation, took up a harp and sang this sinister and seditious ditty...
Poetry in medieval Korea was an aristocratic art that was practiced principally in an aristocratic form: sijo. The word means "time rhythm," and it describes a flexible tercet that has the form of a syllogism and the force of a heroic haiku. Yi Bang-won and Jong Mong-ju addressed each other in sijo, and over the next five centuries their example was emulated by thousands of eminent statesmen, generals and courtesans. A vast literature of sijo resulted, and even these stiff translations by Inez Kong Pai suggest that it is a poetic form whose recognition by the West...
...paying something like $15 a week for a column, but the editor can play big shot by 'firing' a writer he has never met, is not likely to meet, and never should meet. The editor has convinced himself that he, like my movie producer, can bang out as good a column if he had the time." For all that, O'Hara ruefully admitted: "For the tenth time, I am an unemployed newspaperman...
...bang of a blown-out spark plug or the crunch of a bent fender makes the U.S. motorist fume, but it is music to Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. As a leader in the U.S.'s $7 billion-a-year market for auto parts, G. & W. lives on breakdowns and damage. It lives well: since 1958, it has multiplied its annual sales 22-fold to $175 million, acquired 57 companies that make products as diverse as guitars, jet-engine parts and survival equipment for spacemen. Last week, in its most ambitious diversification, G. & W. made a deal to merge with...