Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Here they are, the first pictures of our cosmonauts!" With that exuberant introduction, Veteran Soviet Anchor Man Yuri Fokin, 50, Moscow's properly graying, avuncular counterpart of U.S. television's Walter Cronkite, began his commentary on the first live broadcast from the orbiting Soyuz. Fokin's enthusiasm was typical: no event in recent years had been so ballyhooed by the Kremlin as the Apollo-Soyuz linkup...
Once more the Oriental theater provides a traditional counterpart. In the Kabuki theater of Japan not only is it obligatory to have a group of geza of musicians, just off stage, to simulate conventional sounds on a host of percussion instruments, but there are also special stagehands, called Kurogo, who render all manner of assistance to the actors in full view of the audience. These Kurogo are dressed and veiled in black, to indicate that we are to pretend they are invisible...
...years. The grounds of Seoul's Kyongbok Palace in late spring are rich with blossoms. Korean men still like to relax and discuss the business of the day at a Kisaeng party, the Korean equivalent of a geisha soirée. Less contrived and artful than its Japanese counterpart, a Kisaeng party is a time to sing, dance, talk and relax...
Despite his penchant for authoritarianism, South Korea's President Park Chung Hee seems positively Jeffersonian compared with his counterpart north of the Demilitarized Zone. No other country can rival North Korea in its thoroughgoing control over every aspect of the lives of its 15 million citizens, or in the total deification of its leader, President Kim Il Sung...
...Koreans' language is no less belligerent. Recent sample: "You are matchlessly brazen-faced.") It was in such a setting that U.S. Major General William Webb last week indignantly presented photos of a tunnel that North Korean infiltrators had secretly dug under the DMZ; Webb's North Korean counterpart just as indignantly replied that the evidence was all fabricated...