Word: tang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton, who went to see the New China of entrepreneurs and cell phones, was welcomed with a ceremony from the Old China, featuring actors and musicians in elaborate Tang dynasty costumes. Both Chinese and American officials hoped this nine-day trip would, by pointing up positive changes since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, promote what a senior State Department official called "the de-demonization of China...
...impression was that they were drawn by the spectacle -- they weren't cheering and clapping, they were just staring at the huge motorcade. The Chinese met Clinton at the south gate of the city with an elaborate ceremony -- fake fog machines to add atmospherics, all these people in Tang dynasty costumes with elaborate headdresses, lanterns and weapons; a traditional emperor's greeting revived especially for the President. Clinton appeared to be enjoying himself and gave a nice people-to-people speech, staying away from politics. He noted that he was in China's heartland, and was from America's heartland...
...already independent in all but name and that Beijing is sharpening its weapons to reverse the process. Last month Chinese President Jiang Zemin summoned his top officials for a three-day review of Taiwan policy and urged them to "speed up the reunification of the motherland." Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan says Taiwan is "the most important core issue" in relations with the U.S., and President Bill Clinton will hear all about that when he arrives in China next week...
...light fixture fall from the sky? Why was he caught in a rain shower only five feet wide? And his wedding photo: Meryl has her fingers crossed! Pod lady or Stepford wife, Meryl has a tang of arsenic in her syrupy voice. And perhaps never in film history has an actress allowed her chiseled dimples to be used so mercilessly against her; the creases in Linney's cheeks seem to be the first fissures in Meryl's crackup...
Past Nieman fellows give the program very high marks. Terry Tang, a 1992 Nieman fellow and editorial writer for the Seattle Times, said he considers it "the most precious commodity in a busy career--time to read books missed in college and to consider how better to do my job," according to the foundation's worldwideWeb site...