Word: rattanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horrors of the prison island. Their jailers, they said, stole most of the ration allowance of 14? a day. Gold teeth were forcibly yanked from their mouths. They were housed in shacks, clothed in rags and forbidden to eat the produce they grew. For punishment they were beaten with rattan whips and hoisted by the armpits to hang in the sun all day without water...
Through the week there was no violence and there were no anti-Dutch incidents. In Djakarta Dutchmen lolled in rattan chairs on their verandas, purposefully ignoring the sump-oil insults smeared on their house walls a fortnight ago. To counteract charges that the Dutch were being physically hustled out of Java, the government refused to allow foreign airlines to lay on special planes, made clear that the ejection of the Dutch would be gradual and proper...
...barons to support his demagogue pals . . ." Save for a few intent Followers in the front row, the score or so in the audience let their concentration lapse and their eyes drift from the speaker behind the chintz-covered table. A rough-hewn bust of Trotsky dominated one corner. Sleazy rattan blinds covered the high, narrow windows. Dusty, antique light fixtures shone dimly from the peeling ceiling...
That was all there was to the trial. The verdict: guilty. Sentence: death by strangulation, to be carried out on the spot. A length of rattan fiber was wrapped around Piao's neck; two comrades seized hold of each end of it and pulled hard. After a while, Piao was dead...
...dining-room floor made of tooled blue leather, but most were bound to set housewives thinking. The colors seemed to come from a painter's palette-sparkling topaz yellow, lime green, burnt orange, cocoa brown, wine red. Decorators drew their materials from all over the world, combined Philippine rattan with American brass, mixed 19th century antiques with 20th century Egyptian coral sculpture, and thought nothing of flanking a modern sofa with a pair of smiling, five-foot Venetian blackamoors, carved in 1710. Among the more interesting experiments: ¶ A brass and wood Barbecue Room by Manhattan's Melanie...