Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office leaves no doubt that Chung is a very successful man. And this might be an Horatio Alger story except Chung says it happened all by accident...
...shortages of fresh vegetables, fish and high-quality meat, more marked in some cities than in others. In Shanghai, for example, shoppers with families to feed will go to market at 4:30 or 5 in the morning; by noon in Peking, vegetable stalls are often out of everything except onions and cabbages...
Celebrity sporting events are like happy families in a Russian novel: they're all alike. Only the celebrities and the sports change. A number of celebrities, most of whom have nothing in common except that they are celebrities, get together to compete in a sport in which they have no expertise for a number of rewards, the most important of which is money to be donated to their favorite charities...
Swimming to Cambodia is brilliant and entertaining and should definitely be seen. Its only drawback is that, as Gray says, "it's all true except the part about the banana...
Gray also mocks the US administration, both lightly and with dark severity. He tells us that the CIA put Lon Nol in power in Cambodia although "no one knew anything about Lon Nol except that Lon Nol spelled background is still Lon Nol." And he compares Pol Pot to Hitler, saying the reason the US continued to support Pol Pot is because no Americans speak Khmer and therefore don't care about the genocide which occured for five years in Cambodia...