Word: jongg
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...entrenched bureaucracy, it is not surprising that he became a victim of the purges spawned by the Cultural Revolution. Red Guard pamphlets mercilessly denigrated him as a dissolute, high-living potentate who used his high office to indulge his gluttonous tastes and his bourgeois devotion to bridge and mah-jongg; it was said that he frequently commanded special planes and railway cars to bring his card-playing cronies along on jaunts round the country. At one point he was driven through the streets in a truck with a dunce cap pulled over his ears, jeered at by a screeching, vengeful...
...processed, this crudely refined "sugar" is smuggled into Amsterdam in small amounts (usually no more than 2 lbs.) by Chinese "mules" (underworld slang for narcotics couriers). Often they are illegal residents of Amsterdam, who have been blackmailed into carrying drugs after they have run up heavy debts playing mah-jongg in the "Chinese Only" gambling dens of the city's Rosse Buurt (red-light district). Once the heroin arrives, it may be sold on the streets of Amsterdam for between $40 and $60 a gram. Much of it, however, is shipped to markets all over Europe, including...
MIAMI, that lotus land of sun, sand, surf and swimming pools, is also a city of golf and mah-jongg, of Shecky Greene and Liza Minnelli-a high-rolling town where lacquered young ladies comb the bars along Collins Avenue through the long, hot winter, trading favors for bread. It is an unlikely kind of football town. Who thinks of apple-cheeked American youth playing a fast game of touch on Jackie Gleason Drive or Arthur Godfrey Road? Who would expect hoarse cries of "Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" from a bathing-suit salesman dressed in a robin...
...seldom found in Mishima. His Tokyo aristocrats are amusingly caught between East and West, lavishly mounting their ancient rituals and becoming expert billiard players. When Satoko becomes engaged, the palace discreetly passes the word that this flower of culture, versed in poetry and calligraphy, must learn to play mah-jongg because that is her future mother-in-law's favorite diversion. As for her fiancé, the Imperial Highness, his only known opinions are on Western music. When his proud mother asks him to "play some thing for us," he rises promptly and-in a parody of any child...
...Clean. The results can be slightly oppressive; some Singaporeans even long for the excitement of the dirtier old days. Not only have fireworks been banned, but one government official has talked about curbing the blaring of TV and radios, and has even suggested that the noise of mah-jongg, Singapore's favorite game, should be kept as low as possible...