Word: gongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...January the Religious Affairs Bureau, dormant for years, was revived in Peking, along with units in Shanghai and Canton. In February a national-level conference in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, established an eight-year plan for government-sponsored academic research on religion. Shanghai's Catholic Bishop Gong Binmei (Kung Pin-mei), 77, and Protestant Evangelist Wang Mingdao (Wang Ming-tao), 79, both imprisoned for over 20 years, have reportedly been released. The People's Daily declared that China's government would "staunchly and consistently" uphold article 46 of China's 1978 constitution. Article 46 guarantees...
Marshall did not go gift-less, though. After the game, his baserunning manuever received the annual "Pin Head Award," Harvard baseball's version of the Gong Show "dirty sock." "It's a unique honor to win the game and the Pin Head," Marshall noted...
...came Chicago's The $1.98 Beauty Show on channel ten, WJAR in Providence, R.I. To say that this program is a spin-off of The Gong Show might tell you something, but not enough. An announcer says at the beginning that the show "is a search for the most beautiful girl in the world." Rip Taylor, a manic comedian, of no recognizable talent, hosts this obscenity in which six women, all of whom possess significantly less talent than Taylor, publicly humiliate themselves for a half-hour until a panel of "celebrities" (Edward Winter, Fred Travelena and "Dr." Joyce Brothers) judges...
Winner--Quincy House Gong Show...
...singers as he lets the songs rip like some Bleecker Street parody of a Vegas lounge lizard. In concert, with billowing shirt, plunging neckline and a crooner's microphone calisthenics, Dylan works his way through his standard repertory and sometimes looks as if he is auditioning for The Gong Show...