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*Which points out that seamstresses in Manhattan's Chinatown, the nation's second largest Oriental community, are almost completely unionized, make $2.30 an hour plus overtime after a 35-hour week, and wield correspondingly greater political influence.
Inevitably, some of her early engagements were at the unemployment-insurance office, and she had to live in a cold-water flat "where the roaches rattled the dishes." Within three months, though, she was accosted in Greenwich Village by a Hungarian producer named William Gyimes, who looked "like an Oriental...
Ray fuses sight and sound into a single artistic unity. His people speak in a curious linguistic melange, basically Bengali but liberally daubed with English stock phrases. His musical background, which he himself composed, is a similar fluid mixture in which a line of Oriental melody moves imperceptibly toward a...
THE Thais call it gin muong (nation eating). In Chinese, it is known as tan wu (greedy impurity), in Japanese oshoku (dirty job), and to the Pakistanis, it is ooper ki admani (income from above). Every Oriental language has its own phrase for corruption-and in every tongue the words...
This is the 16th Judge Dee novel by Robert van Gulik, 57, who is the Netherlands' Ambassador to Japan and an Oriental scholar. His writing lacks somewhat in professional sheen, but Scholar Gulik more than compensates with rich and accurate historical detail of the Tang dynasty. The manners and...