Word: mandarinism
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...Corp. in China. There's Wanted! In China to help catch murderers and Late Night Talk with a Letterman knock-off reading Top 10 lists. But censors have refused to clear a Friends-style show with allusions to premarital sex. Although News Corp. won the right to beam its Mandarin-language channel, Starry Sky, across the country to certain hotels and apartments, it is unclear whether Rupert Murdoch will be allowed to reach China's 95 million ordinary cable subscribers. The Communist Party will be the judge on that one. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing...
...means to the Chinese people, and it's not the bland melodramas, giddy variety shows and propaganda classics broadcast on some 50 cable channels run mostly by the country's central and provincial governments. Nor is it the warmed-over Western cartoons and overseas dramas that are dubbed into Mandarin and recycled on the mainland by News Corp.'s main foreign competitor, AOL Time Warner (owner of TIME...
...gawk. "There's something about the guy," says Tomjanovich. "He's got a warmness about him, a sense of humor." Yao is already one of the league's better quotes. Asked whether he can speak English better than he lets on, Yao turned to Pine and said in Mandarin, "I still don't understand a lot of things. If I did, you would have been fired a while...
...asked for a response. Tongue in cheek, he said that Chinese was a hard language to learn. (To defuse any controversy, Yao had also sent Shaq a Christmas card, not a typical Chinese gesture.) Before the two played in Houston later in January, Shaq apologized, using the Mandarin dui bu qi. Yao invited Shaq to his home for dinner, and though O'Neal declined because of a family commitment, he congratulated Yao on his All-Star selection. Yao joked that he was relieved O'Neal couldn't come for dinner: "I was afraid my refrigerator wasn't big enough...
...corner of our lives safe from a designer makeover? The latest renovation site: the kitchen sink. METHOD dish soap, in scents like mandarin, mint and cucumber, comes in bulbous plastic bottles crafted by Karim Rashid, the Egyptian-Canadian designer who has put his stamp on perfume bottles, expensive furniture and garbage cans. Martha Stewart has released her own impeccable bottle of dishwashing liquid...