Word: tang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Tang En-po. 55. Chinese Nationalist general; after surgery; in Tokyo. A onetime boy wonder in China's eight-year war against Japan. General Tang met only defeat at the hands of the Chinese Communists, was sacked after the fall of Shanghai...
...Honduras jungles, went to sea and knocked around the Atlantic from Southampton to South Africa. For O'Neill, the sea was a mystic experience. Some of his best plays, e.g., The Moon of the Caribbees and some of his worst, e.g., Anna Christie, are salty with the tang of the sea, saltier still with the tongue of lonely, hard-bitten sailormen...
...small man who has a passing resemblance to Peter Lorre, listening attentively to the music but with one ear cocked to audience response. For about two hours, the comedy went on, its performers (from the Punch Opera company) obviously enjoying their slightly bawdy roles. The score, with its occasional tang of dissonance and its shifting harmonies, sounded like slightly clouded Prokofiev, contained some lively ensemble passages and as large a share of waltzes as Rosenkavalier. If few listeners were carried away, it may have been because the plot of Ben Jonson's old comedy seemed pretty far removed from...
Last week, for the first time, the Nelson gallery proudly showed off the results of Restorer Roth's patient work. By removing the 12th century mural (which he carefully reassembled on a new panel), Roth had uncovered a magnificent loth century Tang painting of Kuan-yin, the Goddess of Mercy, done in brilliant vermilion, orange, green and blue. Some 800 years ago, temple priests in North China had evidently tired of the goddess on their wall, ordered her plastered over with a layer of mud and rice husks, then commissioned artists to paint another scene on top. Experts could...
...Called Souvlakia at the Athens, Shashlik in Russian restaurants, and Shish-Kabab most everywhere else, the chunks of lamb are sauteed in olive oil and rigone. Before serving, onions are added for pungency. The meat is succulent with natural juice and the combined effect of onions and a pronounced tang of rigone...