Word: orientale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOST DEPRESSING TASTE TEST Gathering ten trained tasters to do a blind sampling of foods meant to go with Korbel California champagne, the Palatex company came up with the following amazing results: fried fish sticks beat out caviar, Oreos were preferred to strawberries, taco filling to foie gras and Oriental...
In his new film Murphy is discovered -- promisingly -- as a tracer of lost children in low-life Los Angeles. But he is immediately hired by an oriental religious cult to find the golden child of the title, their missing messiah who they believe will bring peace to this tired, troubled...
"The idea of mask and game playing is very important here. We're talking about an almost Oriental kind of concept of face and honor," says John Edgar Wideman, author of Brothers and Keepers, a 1985 book about his relationship with his brother Robbie, who is serving a life sentence...
"As an antiquarian who's deeply involved in contemporary culture, Wu Hung has done a great deal to further our understanding of Chinese art," says Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art John M. Rosenfield.
Shrewd negotiating tactics are a familiar part of the Ghermezian success story. The family gained a North American toehold when Patriarch Jacob Ghermezian, now 86, moved to Montreal from Tehran in 1959. The family began selling Oriental rugs door to door, then opened a Montreal retail outlet, which within five...