Word: mung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pork and aromatic hot broth, or the juicy, half-fried, half-steamed, pork- stuffed crescents called guotie. Breakfast purchased on Shanghai street corners can be the big snowy puffs of yeast buns filled with sweet red-bean paste. All day long there are noodles made of rice, wheat or mung beans, served hot, cold, with gravy or in soup, garnished with wisps of coriander and onions or more substantial bits of pork. (Travelers who want to enjoy the delights of food at unhygienic street stands as well as in the inexpensive, lively people's restaurants should carry their own chopsticks...
...great deal of unnecessary filler used to pad the otherwise flat main idea. For example, too much of the plot revolves around Leslie's attempt at cooking dinner for the IRS agent and his would-be mother-in-law (what else would a wife do?). The dish, 'mung-chowder gumbo' is like much of the play's intended humor--it never materializes. Aside from the failed attempts at comedy, the play strives to excite some reaction from an otherwise limp audience with a series of sexist jokes. Lines such as "you're my kind of woman...drunk" manage to elicit...
...Wila D. Mung'omba, executive president Wila D. Mung'omba, executive president of the Abidjan-based African Development Bank, believes that additional changes are necessary if Africa is to manage an economic recovery successfully. Among them: aid recipients must curb nonessential imports, end policies tailored to deliver cheap food to the cities, and begin giving greater incentives to farmers...