Word: tang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Travis is the ideal -- indeed, the pluperfect -- symbol for this accidental movement, the soft-spoken, tall-sitting, sweet-singing eye of a most congenial storm. "People think country music is related to a bunch of rednecks drinking beer and fighting," he reflects, with the pleasing tang of a North Carolina accent. "They think it's all songs about drinking and cheating. But it covers a lot bigger area than that, you know." He pauses, as if taking a survey of the acreage he is trying to describe. Then, after a minute, there is a shrug and a simple, smiling, "Covers...
...those groups a spicy mixture of Japanese, Thais, Laotians, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Hmong, plus contingents from Pacific Island outposts, and the city that Columnist Herb Caen likes to call "Baghdad by the Bay" more closely resembles Hong Kong East. Says New York-born and Hong Kong- reared Leslie Tang, 32, a commercial developer: "We don't have the political representation that our presence would warrant. We have been accused of being invisible, but there will be a rise in Asian political activity...
...often ill equipped to rear children properly. Some of these parents apply immense pressure on the children to succeed where they themselves have not. Many hire experts to teach the toddlers music, calligraphy or a foreign language. A few even force their sons and daughters to parrot elegant Tang dynasty poetry. Says Fang Xiang, a retired child psychologist: "There is no need for tutoring in composition or arithmetic. What's important is moral education at home...
...revels in the excitement of battle, sex, murder and hatred, while acknowledging the absurdity of the whole thing. "We're not fighting for freedom," the rugged warrior declares. "If there's one word that I had to say to sum up what I'm fighting for, it's poon tang," he says...
...flanks of the deceased H2O breather. But the Casa's seafood is served up as a steamy, eye-tingling gumbo of rice and hors d'oeuvres-size bits of fish, mussels, shrimp or clams, all wrapped up in a deliciously meaty, spicy sauce which takes away the nasty oceanic tang that clings to most fish...