Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that, a small receiver. Gallerygoers could watch an icon contemplate its own image. If Paik's art seems serendipitous, so does his journey to the U.S. His periodically prosperous family was driven out of Seoul in 1950 by the ravages of the Korean War. His father resettled first in Hong Kong and then Tokyo, where Paik earned a university degree with a major in philosophy. At that point, infatuated with the music of Arnold Schoenberg and Western avant-gardism in general, the young graduate might have pursued his studies in the U.S. The country, however, did not interest him. "Many...
...Filipinos to the U.S. as a help in offsetting two of his country's most obstinate problems: unemployment (now running at 45%) and a lopsided balance of payments. In South Korea, the departure of workers has eased some of the strains triggered by a population boom; in overcrowded Hong Kong (pop. 5.5 million), departing workers have reduced competition for professional jobs...
...World capitals: the long line that snakes each weekday around the U.S. embassy. In Mexico, most applicants must wait eight years for a U.S. immigrant visa. In India, 140,000 people are on the waiting list for 20,000 annual U.S. immigrant visas. Most difficult of all, perhaps, is Hong Kong, where nearly 31,000 people have applied for the 600 places available each year. That could mean a wait of more than 50 years. And the line is growing longer...
...Ukrainian neighborhood that overlaps Polish and Puerto Rican sections, Brooklyn a Lebanese quarter just north of formerly Scandinavian, now Hispanic, Sunset Park. In the Balkanized Astoria neighborhood -- one part of one borough -- there are some 5,000 Croatians from Yugoslavia; 1,800 Colombians; 6,200 immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. In the Flushing section of Queens, a few miles east, there are 38,000 Koreans. Before he explored his new neighborhood recently, one Flushing resident fresh from India had been expecting a blonder, Wonder Bread community, like Des Moines, maybe, or Tacoma. "It wasn't America," he says...
...course in satellites at the Army Communications Electronics School in Fort Monmouth, N.J. He was sent back to Diego Garcia for a tour that ended in 1976, when he became a communications specialist aboard the carrier Constellation. Travel notes found in John Walker's home place Walker in Hong Kong in August 1977, at the same time that the Constellation, with Whitworth on it, stopped there. About a year later, Whitworth was a chief radioman aboard the supply ship Niagara Falls when it made a visit to the Philippines; once again Walker was there to greet him. Walker's travel...