Word: mahjongg
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Everyone, everything else in Terrel Seltzer's script is fully assimilated. And so Mom's Old World neighbors play mahjongg with her, then go home to "see what Alexis is up to" on Dynasty. When Geraldine and her kindly, crumpled uncle (Victor Wong) botch a home-cooked Chinese meal, they wind up dining at McDonald's. On the sound track, a zheng and a keening saxophone play a duet of The Star-Spangled Banner. One expects this felicitous cross-fertilization from Director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing), who was born in Hong Kong and named after John Wayne...
Although they were taking tiles in a game of Mahjongg or betting sticks on a game of Yut, the students weren't gambling away their tuition money...
Last week, as Ikeda once again began the laborious Cabinet-building process, hundreds of reporters from the papers and from Japan's TV and radio stations were on duty. Some whiled away the time with games of chess and mahjongg inside the tents. Others dozed on cots or chatted idly with their colleagues, trying to beat the summer heat with bottles of cold beer, which they bring to tento mura by the case. When word was flashed by walkie-talkie radio from the agent inside the P.M.'s foyer, the press corps rushed out to extract the news...
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