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...very clear path to a goal that in some ways allows people to skirt some of the more proactive” elements of the career search process, Gilmore says...
...Yangban Life. Painted in the late 18th century by one of Korea's best-loved artists, Kim Hong-do, it is a marvelous genre work complete with a fat lord being carried on a palanquin, peasants working in fields (one stout woman nonchalantly adjusting the back of her skirt), as well as gentlemen and ladies playing musical instruments, while the smokers, including a woman, stay outside the garden gate...
...mall. The hours are flexible. Eventually she may start selling clothes exclusively, but she isn't ready to give up her practice yet. "I thought, God, this is really fun," she says, "and no one is going to sue me because they didn't like the color of their skirt...
...kind of place just anyone could visit," writes Johnny's only son Jasper, the first of the book's three narrators. "To be invited, you had to be like my father?that is to say, you had to be a liar, a cheat, a traitor, and a skirt chaser. Of the very highest order...
...knew exactly how to beguile America, one day with images of the mysterious East, the next with snapshots of God-fearing, Westernized democrats battling the Red Menace. While Harvard-educated T.V. wheedled millions out of his poker buddies in Washington, Wellesley Graduate May-ling wooed Congress with her slit skirt and florid rhetoric. In the process, the Soongs also hypnotized such powerful cheerleaders as Henry Luce and Columnist Joseph Alsop, who saw in them the lineaments of a progressive new China, ready to enter the American Century...