Word: gongli
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...basement, where he hangs his coat and hat in a cubicle before proceeding to his seventh-floor executive suite. He makes sure to get out of the basement before 9:30-for that is a dangerous hour at Filene's. As soon as the opening gong rings, a stampede of waiting shoppers surges through the doors and overruns the basement with a fervor that has often caused near-riots. They are there to get first pick of the low-cost luxuries that have made Filene's Basement the world's most unusual bargain store...
Over and over, the desperate voice shouted into the telephone: "They are breaking into Xa Loi Pagoda. They are breaking into Xa Loi Pagoda." In the background, gunfire mingled with the confused screams of Buddhist monks and nuns and the clanging alarm of the huge brass gong that hangs in the bell tower of Saigon's largest pagoda. Suddenly the phone connection from the temple went dead...
...products, which are increasingly venal, sloppy, and predictable. For every promising Playwright Schisgal, there are a dozen silly spoofs of old movie musicals, or tasteless tours through neurotic junkyards of the mind, or criminal displays of self-ordained talent that might have lasted ten seconds before getting the critical gong on the late Major Bowes's Amateur Hour. Off-Broadway is frittering away the good will of the loyal audiences it has attracted during a goodly decade. If the present trend continues, off-Broadway will be a precocious casualty rather than a fabulous invalid. The choice that lies ahead...
...passes on his delight to the reader in prose that is sometimes eloquent, sometimes merely latter-day inspirational. "The stars rained down their incandescent spears in sharply patterned salvos upon Mount Pentelikon and me. Staggering a little with my face uplifted, rapt in the ringing of a dark-silver gong, I felt the winds of legend sweep between my ribs, and the fires of yearning and the tongues of dread...
...CHIEF OF PROTOCOL, welcoming Somali's Prime Minister Abdirascid Ali Scermarche, who arrived on a visit and brought a few unusual gifts-an ostrich-egg lamp, a foot-high, bottom-weighted "Devil Doll'' that teeters but never falls over, a monkey-fur rug, and a brass gong mounted between two elephant tusks...