Word: manchurian
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...shine through as a theatrical presence. Perhaps the most thrillingly strange aspect of Tuesday’s concert, and of most of Meloy’s recorded work with the Decemberists, is how utterly and astonishingly genuine he sounds when he croons out those elegant strings of lies about Manchurian secret agents and deceased chimney-sweeps. In a sense, he’s a member of a rare and dying breed of musicians—those who can act. Those who can create a character wholly different from themselves, whose experiences may be completely foreign and exotic, and then still...
...disparate regions by stressing national over regional interests. Yet these days, China's profit-driven media are pulling in the opposite direction by marketing to provincial pride. A hot-selling series of new books, for instance, celebrates local mores. I Am a Northeastern Man champions the grace of Manchurian women, while The Spirit of the Hunan People argues that the courage of that province's denizens "earns them the respect of their enemies." The most popular song of the past two years compares people in the region near North Korea to the Communist Party's most revered soldier-hero...
...disparate regions by stressing national over regional interests. Yet these days, China's profit-driven media are pulling in the opposite direction by marketing to provincial pride. A hot-selling series of new books, for instance, celebrates local mores. I Am a Northeastern Man champions the grace of Manchurian women, while The Spirit of the Hunan People argues that...
China has not always been so dependent on imported oil. The discovery in 1959 of the Daqing oil fields under the Manchurian grasslands meant that the once largely agrarian country was for decades able to produce more crude than it required, a circumstance that the government celebrated as a political victory. ("Study Daqing!" chanted legions of Red Guards during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution.) Oil and gas discoveries in the South China Sea and the Bohai Gulf, where drilling began in 1979, made China seem all the more invulnerable to oil shocks, and the country remained an oil exporter until...
...Well, it’s really hard without a work permit. Have you thought about working with a company with international offices?” This essentially means consulting firms, international banks or other sundry companies that remind me of the evil corporation in the recent remake of The Manchurian Candidate. I am not particularly excited at the prospect of working for a Halliburton, an Enron, a WorldCom, a Hollinger or a Marsh and McClellan...