Word: tang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from longer works, and three of the four works that I saw depicted battles of one kind or another. The effects in these scenes become progressively more elaborate, including choreographed swordfights and spears juggled between performers (often with the feet, from behind the back), climaxing in the final Yen Tang Mountain in a colossal and transcendental display of group acrobatics...
...dramatist, Ireland's Hugh Leonard tracks the minute hand of life. As the clock ticks, his characters fill the passing hour with the tang of Irish talk and freshets of Irish humor, with the surge of sex and the ache of love, with religious piety and tipsy poetry. Leonard's people feel the sting of remorse, offer the balm of compassion, and embrace the abiding little ironies of the condition called human...
...most common abuses among officials is influence peddling to obtain favors for their children. As a modern-day Chinese proverb has it: "The 10,000 things are good, but they are not as good as a well-connected father." In Shanghai, one clever young swindler named Tang Fang posed as the son of the first secretary of the provincial party committee, a ruse that won him not only watches, money and fashionable clothes but also the affection of a comely female soldier...