Word: mandarin
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...afternoons after football games are busiest for Sam, who adds that the Dartmouth weekend provided an especially large crowd. "It was like a zoo," he says of the hordes who clamored for Rocky Road and Mandarin Orange Sherbet...
...bohemian pal (Tracey Ullman), her befuddled lover (Sting) and two of her husband's superiors in the diplomatic corps (John Gielgud and Ian McKellen)--have delicious verbal turns of their own. Among its other virtues, Plenty is the year's funniest film, to those with a taste for English mandarin scorn: the word unspoken, the sneer barely repressed, euphemism as an act of smart-club malice...
Coop--Board of Directors, Glee Club. H/R Chorus, Winthrop Mandarin Table, House Academic Committee, Harvard Foundation...
...ARTISANS RANGE from being shy to extremely outgoing. Since none of them speak or understand English, it often seems that they are frustrated by their inability to communicate with their captive audiences. Since the museum relies on volunteers to staff the floors, a chronic shortage of Mandarin-speaking interpreters seems unavoidable...
...sent to serve as an interpreter for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese 'coolie' laborers on the Western Front (itself a revealing and sobering interlude in The Call). Upon his return to China we witness a less ambitious David Treadup, a man who treasures his knowledge of Mandarin more than his knowledge of science, which he has seen put to such horrible use by the Great Powers against one another. He embarks on almost two decades of literacy training in a small circle of villages near Peking; such unprecedented teaching of ordinary peasants serves as an apt metaphor...