Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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1.The cardinal Chinese principle in dealing with a non-Chinese is to use friendship as a halter. Admit the outsider to a guest membership in Chinese society. Compliment him on his knowledge of aspects of Chinese culture or of the Chinese language. Entertain him with informality and frankness. Establish the personal bonds of friendship, which in the old China were stronger than in Western urban life today. Become really intimate friends and understand his unspoken assumptions and personal motivations...
...permitted in Islam, he simply wrote her a note telling her she was out); after four years of marriage, no children; in Djakarta. Simultaneously, Sukarno announced his secret marriage, probably three years ago, to Yurike Sanger, 21, from northern Celebes, whom he met when she was chosen to entertain at a state function...
...divorcee, she has a large following among the men, to whom she plays as deftly as she plays the piano. She can be either nursemaid or sedup-tress, gauging her attack by "the different stages of drink." Says she: "If they're looking at me, I try to entertain. If they're occupied with themselves, I just sit back and sort of mess around." - Nappy Gagno, at Boston's Merry-Go-Round Lounge, has been rising atop the lounge's rotating bar for twelve years. He has an uncanny memory for the favorite tunes of conventioneers...
...order and the sense of succession subsides in the illusion of a permanent present. Fantasy heightens reality. Cause and effect are denied, and in the more extreme experiments such as in Last Year at Marienbad, a fundamental reorientation in time and space takes shape. Even as it strives to entertain, the new cinema is part of the broad cultural movement of an age that is searching for a contemporary redefinition of man's place in the universe...
...elections and Kerr's dismissal show that many Californians entertain a lazy suburban hope that property taxes will stay down while salaries go up and everyone's children enjoy public education. It won't work, and firing a recalcitrant university president won't make it work...