Word: kung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insects and elephant seals secondhand. Second, Emmerich criticized DeVore for having theorized about humans without being among "those scientists who actually studied human beings and societies." In fact, DeVore is an anthropologist, and his two career-long research interests have been observing baboons and observing the culture of the Kung bushmen. DeVore did refer to these cross-cultural observations of his in his talk...
...rest of the universe by a "god-wall" from an unknown source, the Calebens. (No Shakespearian connotations, as they are good guys.) Outside of Dosadi's wall is a complex universe with a tenuous power balance among humans, the frog-like Gowachins and the death-dancing wreaves--with their Kung-fu-like movements and poisoned mandibles. Jorj X. McKie, a red-haired man of Polynesian descent, is the only human accepted as a Legum in the Gowachin legal system. Herbert fails to give the legal cult the depth of Dune's Bene Gesserit witches but he still shows traces...
Chinese readers who turned to their copy of Sports News were treated to a smashing journalistic tripleheader. One major story reported on Kung Fu matches in the rural communes. Another offered a detailed and edifying answer to a reader's query asking whether an athlete who is afflicted with piles should play badminton and shadowbox (he should). The third scoop was a blow-by-blow account of how Chiang Ch'ing, the wife of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, murdered her ailing husband last year, offering the latest twist in the continuing campaign against Madame Mao. Three...
...from my cover." But Polanski still managed to express himself inimitably across 53 pages. Among his features: an annotated gallery of his leading ladies (Faye Dunaway is "the grande dame of the screen") and six pages on his idols, Icelandic Painter Erro, the late Bertrand Russell and the late Kung Fu movie star Bruce Lee. All in all, Polanski was pleased: "There's a certain thrill to seeing my work on a page. It's the thrill of novelty, like having a new affair...
There were also disclosures of Chiang Ch'ing's hedonistic tastes. Although as culture boss of China in the 1960s she had imposed uplifting revolutionary themes on China's arts, she preferred sexy movies and Kung Fu flicks imported from the decadent West and from Hong Kong. For the millions of Chinese who have endured countless showings of Chiang Ch'ing's ballet, The Detachment of Red Women, on stage, screen and television, this might be the gravest of the charges against...