Word: jades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Ong Tao, the Spirit of the Hearth, returns home each year after his call on the Heavenly Jade Emperor, all Viet Nam takes a holiday from war and erupts in the festival of Tet to welcome the Lunar New Year. It is a time of dancing and dragon masks, of firecrackers rigged from snail shells and gunpowder, of feasting on roast pork and sugared apricots. It is also a time of homecoming. This week, as the Vietnamese greet the Year of the Ram under cover of the four-day truce agreed to by both sides, some 100,000 Viet...
However, Tom LaFarge's articles are clever and sometimes touching. He has an eye for the incisive detail that can paint an instant picture--a "jade-rimmed pince-nez," an "ivory ping-pong table" -- but sometimes he starts cataloguing trivia. With sparser details and stronger endings, his stories will be gems. Conn Nugent's revelation that Harvard football victories depress the economy is off-beat and has an angle--the sort of amusing fact-twisting that the Yale Record is more inclined to do, but very welcome in the Lampoon...
Despite the vast new gallery, only one-fifth of the Brundage collection can be shown at one time. Its 700 pieces of Jade are but part of the treasures available not only to the public but also to Oriental scholars. When did Brundage decide to specialize in collecting Eastern art works? "In 1935," he says, "I made a special trip to London to see a .great exhibit of Chinese art there. British experts had brought a whole gunboat load back. Seeing that drove the last nail in my coffin. I've been broke ever since." Now, because of Brundage...
DARLING. This jet-set satire with trimmings of pathos is tailor-made for Julie Christie's stylish performance as the amoral jade who sleeps her way from pad to palazzo...
...want a dame!" Soon Sir Alec is off to the local bawdyhouse. His milksop face a mask of maniacal innocence, he joins the Madam (Mady Rahl) on a couch so voluptuous that his feet don't quite reach the floor. Whereupon, he proceeds to terrify the poor jade with his doubletalking request for the services of a young lady who can entertain a couple of eccentric friends in total silence. Such pimping could hardly be improved upon, which shows just how far an unpleasant comedy has to go to find a moment of pure Guinness...