Word: parlorized
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...state that confidently and pragmatically goes about its business--even though much of that business is on the mainland. To wander through Taipei or tour the countryside is to realize that the hoary topic of reunification is not so much an issue as an irrelevance, a political parlor game fraught with linguistic and semantic tricks played out in Beijing, Washington and Taipei...
...state that confidently and pragmatically goes about its business (even though much of that business is on the mainland). And as you wander through Taipei or tour the countryside, you realize that the hoary topic of re-unification is not so much an issue as an irrelevance, a political parlor game fraught with linguistic and semantic tricks played out in Beijing, Washington and Taipei?a game that increasingly seems as anachronistic as the terms still used to describe cross-strait relations: Arms Race, Balance of Power, DEtente...
...Zhang Jin, the concubine, a Mandarin speaker from Qingdao on China's east coast. She learned Cantonese from her Hong Kong motor executive "husband" as well as some Japanese, Korean and English from other clients. The languages will come in handy, she says, when she opens her border beauty parlor. She is giving herself 10 years to save enough money from her other talent: picking up paying men. But competition is rough. The Moonlight's chain-smoking madame, Zhou Min, says she has 200 girls on her books. And by midnight on a recent evening, the club has drawn only...
Here's a medical pop quiz: Frick and Frack are friends who sport matching spare tires around their waists. Frick goes to Weight Watchers and loses 30 lbs.; Frack goes to the ice-cream parlor and downs a triple banana split every day for a month. So who will live longer? Anybody with a clue about obesity knows that conscientious Frick has lowered his risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and stroke. Frack has done exactly the opposite...
...were no palm-fringed islands. When you went to sea in my district, everybody knew your mum and dad. The ship would probably be full of men who drank with your dad. So when you went to one of these ports, and you wanted to know where the tattoo parlor was and the bar with the naughty ladies, they'd say, "Listen, son. You'd better stay here and paint that bulkhead. Your mother wouldn't like that...