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...Pnompenh is flocking to a spectacular riverside gambling complex, opened as a government monopoly in February. Inside a huge casino, thousands challenge the laws of chance in an assortment of card and dice games; in nine nearby air-conditioned chalets, the more affluent play roulette, chemin de fer and mah-jongg. Of the daily winnings of $75,000, the government skims off $40,000, while $25,000 goes to cover operating expenditures. The rest of the take is divided among 25 concessionaires, including several owners of now-closed illegal houses...
Rarely taller or more distinctive than the factories, mah-jongg parlors, bookshops and tile-roofed rooming houses that hem them in, Tokyo's overcrowded university buildings line traffic-trampled streets rather than wooded malls. While top-prestige Tokyo University (15,879 students) has a wall to set it off from the city's bustle, even it has no greenery that could properly be called a campus. At many of these schools it is even rarer for a student to talk to a professor than it is at a U.S. multiversity. Nihon has 75,500 students, second only...
During his heyday, art experts generally dismissed Erté's chaste variety of Beardsleyish Orientalism as an evanescent fad, like mah-jongg or the Charleston. Almost alone, French Critic Maurice Feuillet in 1929 hailed him as "a harbinger of the art of tomorrow, a prince of fantasy, a magician of conception." Feuillet may have been close to the truth. Last month, when Manhattan's Grosvenor Gallery put on display 179 early gouache and metallic-paint designs by Erté, the entire collection was snapped up by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gallery has since been selling Erte...
...spirits. Before a house or a temple is built, its location must be carefully considered in relation to mountain or water spirits. Children sometimes dress in striped tiger clothing to ward off evil influences. It is unlucky to meet a bald-headed man on the way to a mah-jongg party and dangerous to help a drowning man, because evil spirits might drag the rescuer down too. The aggregate of thousands of such superstitions is not transcendental or spiritual. It is not an attempt to commune with the unseen forces but to constrain them. It is all part of what...
...third, and a count of three balls and two strikes on Batter Art Shamsky, he cuts loose a back-breaking curve. Strike three! Meanwhile, he has scored one Giant run himself, driven in two others with a 385-ft. double. The Giants win, 5-3, and Juan Marichal (pronounced Mah-ree-chal) marches off to the clubhouse with what he wants-his tenth straight victory of the year. He is earning $70,000 a year, is the No. 1 pitcher in baseball at this point in the season, and is a hero to thousands of fans...