Word: oo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point again in Shanghai, the city called the "Paris of the East" during the Roaring Twenties; a place made famous forever when, in the 1932 film Shanghai Express, Marlene Dietrich drawled, "It too-oo-k more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily." Shanghai is no longer trendy, modern or even cosmopolitan, but its streets are still tops for infant watching. Sadly, though, the toddlers I see seldom cry or laugh or even suck their thumbs. Most seem sullen. And in the beautiful Jing an Park, which used to be a cemetery before the bodies were exhumed...
...recruit organizers, even though the government harasses and sometimes detains lower-level party workers. The most prominent party, the National League for Democracy, which claims a membership of 450,000, is a coalition of convenience for three of the best-known opposition figures: former Generals Aung Gyi and Tin Oo, and the highly popular Aung San Suu Kyi, the British-educated daughter of independence hero Aung...
...elections. But Maung Maung failed to set a date for the balloting, and the demonstrations went on. By last week the opposition's emerging leadership appeared to be focusing on the issue of how to negotiate a transfer of power. Three leading dissidents -- former generals Aung Gyi and Tin Oo, and Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of one of Burma's great nationalist heroes and the country's newest and brightest political star -- wrote to Maung Maung formally rejecting the proposed elections. They were joined in that demand by former Prime Minister U Nu, who had been ousted from power...
...Nuremberg was one of the great entrepreneurial centers of the late Middle Ages: innovative in production, much concerned with quality control, widely specialized, adventurous, rich and proud. Its burghers and nobles demanded art to match. The curators of this show have not stinted on what one might call the oo-ah side--the gold- and silverwork, the enamels and tiny carvings, the intricate chalices and aquamaniles that expressed the patrician sumptuousness of the city's religious and secular life. There is, for instance, one of the most extravagant objects in the history of European metalwork, the Schlusselfelder Ship, made...
...desired. In hundreds of reviews and in books like Axel's Castle, he introduced a wide and insular American audience to the world's leading writers and most important historical events. To the Finland Station gave depth and drama to the Russian Revolution, and his essay "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!" deflated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit long before they became cult books. By the beginning of World War II, he had failed to examine only one contemporary figure: Edmund Wilson...