Word: jades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accompanied by 440 functionaries, diplomats, actors, athletes and jugglers, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai visited neighboring Burma last week to proclaim that "no gift in the world is more precious than people's friendship." Honored as the first recipient of Burma's jade-studded order of the "Supreme Upholder of the Glory of Great Love," Chou was in his most conciliatory mood as he exchanged papers with Burma's Premier U Nu formally ratifying the border treaty that settled the long-festering Sino-Burmese frontier dispute (TIME, Feb. 8, 1960). To seal this...
...forest, In the waste land, doe is laid: White rushes over her. Lady beautiful as jade...
...business agent. Climbing the broad stairs to the lobby of the popular, 274-room Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, which commands an unrivaled view of Hong Kong itself banked against the Peak across the harbor, the visitor is surrounded by shop after shop selling bargain-priced brocades, silks, cameras, pearls, jade, tape recorders, linens, carved ivory and inlaid furniture...
...plus the problems of telescoping four Act I scenes into two, straightening out Act II, deepening Mordred's villainy all of which requires new lines, new musical bridges, and scenes long enough to allow complicated scene shifts. When he is not pounding the piano, Loewe fingers a piece of jade it once belonged to an Oriental potentate who said his beloved had always kept it as close as possible to her which serves Fritz as a sort of mineral Miltown...
...there. Loewe is a bit rumpled, his predilections turning more to wine, women, and when the need arises song. Lerner smokes, and has a habit of twirling the ignited cigarette in his fingers like the active end of a turboprop. Loewe has given up smoking, but when the jade palls he constantly keeps an unlit cigarette in his hand, gradually flattening and shredding it as he talks. He pinches away a pack a day, recently changed brands...