Word: dense
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Don't expect "Plaza Suite," or even "Pi Eta Suite," but do try to see Overtures in Asia Minor, the 1979 Hasty Pudding offering. This year's showcase of lousy puns and a male kickline deals with spies in Near East opium dens and a butler who, quoting T.S. Eliot...
Ever since the first Yankee clipper set sail for Canton in 1784, China has held a compelling fascination for Americans. Traders and other early visitors to the Celestial Kingdom returned home with tales of teeming millions, exotic landscapes, seemingly outlandish manners and morals. Even today some Americans have a vision...
Shanghai, the world's largest metropolitan area (pop. 10.8 million), is China's leading trading center and second biggest industrial city. Gone are the 60,000 foreigners who ran the city as a fiefdom for a century. Gone too are the singsong girls and the 30,000 prostitutes...
Since she first blossomed on a poster over a year ago, Farrah Fawcett-Majors has become the most ubiquitous wallflower since Betty Grable was a base hit with World War II G.I.s. Grable and her fabled gams had a printing of 3 million; Farrah, teeth rampant on a field of...
There were other considerations. The climate of the site had to be reasonably benevolent, and the annual snowfall modest. The soil had to be firm (which automatically excluded the four-fifths of Alaska that is shifting, meltable permafrost), and it had to be less prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions...