Word: orientale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The U.S. press may believe that Americans are amused by looking at pictures of smiling Oriental children, Chinese "couples in love" and adorable panda bears. But one important fact is left out: the people are kept under a rigid, totalitarian regime that talks peace, understanding and freedom, but is as...
MacLaine has three residences: a beach-front apartment building in Malibu that she built as an investment, a hideaway in Washington State with panoramic views of Mount Rainier and a comfortably cluttered apartment on Manhattan's East Side. The furniture there is mostly old and relatively inexpensive. The objects...
It looked like a scene from The King and I, in which a proper English governess frantically coaches Oriental courtiers in the rudiments of Occidental custom. All week, for five hours a day, 140 uniformed Chinese waiters and waitresses marched in stiff single file through an empty hotel banquet hall...
Meanwhile, in city and in country, new fads and features from the West have begun to change the face and shape of the people. In Peking, women sometimes pay plastic surgeons $20 (half a month's wage for the average urban worker) to have their eyes enlarged, their eyelids folded...
The group has been charged with stealing more than $50,000 worth of goods, including musical instruments, jewelry, two computers, a snow blower and an oriental rug worth $25,000 in Newton, according to Detective Walter L. Boyle.