Word: carpe
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...Before he finally slipped into freedom via Hong Kong, Zhang survived for almost a year disguised as "Old Fourth Wang," a peasant farmer and fisherman in a remote border area. There, he planted rice, fished carp, hunted water deer and encountered a nation where lives remain rooted in nature and clan and authentic interactions between human beings. People knew his true identity, and didn't care. Zhang, in turn, came to admire his "kind and generous neighbors." The most remarkable passages in this memoir are those that explore this "unsanctioned" China. Part of the tragedy for Zhang and fellow exiles...
...memorials because I think a lot of it has been commercialized and is a little bit too sappy,” she said. “My family feels similarly that it makes more sense to go through the routine of your life than to sit and carp on it for a while...
...famed institution. Across the street, the Naraya Inn (81-460-2-2411) offers more of a Japanese flavor. For centuries it has played host to traveling nobles who have sought out its airy tatami rooms with shoji screens opening on a traditional garden and ponds full of alarmingly aggressive carp...
...Nakashima River in the old downtown area. Stone bridges crisscross the ancient waterway every hundred meters or so; the most notable is Spectacles Bridge-so named because at sunset the waterborne reflection of the bridge's double arches creates the illusion that the river's orange and white carp are swimming within the frames of a pair of eyeglasses. I climb down to the bank for a better look and the fish crowd greedily around me, nudging their large snouts out of the water. "Feed them," a long-haired, young woman says to me, passing me a fistful of cracker...
...Meanwhile, Vajpayee's colleagues carp that he's still not being hawkish enough. "Any Prime Minister that takes action against Pakistan will sweep the elections, but Vajpayee is reluctant and that will definitely damage the BJP," complains BJP hard-liner B.P. Singhal. "As the Prime Minister, for him, national interest is above party interest...