Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eerie. One night, somewhere between Prairie du Chien, Wis., and Dubuque, Iowa, Dmitri Agrachev, the cruise's official Soviet interpreter, was playing Scrabble, in English, with three Americans. "It's not a very nice word," he began, "but I'll use it," and laid out five letters: P-U-R-G-E. No one so much as raised a smile or a brow. Three hours later, Agrachev had finished off his opponents...
...request of Chinese officials, numerous western-based companies have started up operations inside China's several special economic zones, including huge factories for cabbagepatch doll clothing. In addition, cultural and educational Sino-U.S. exchanges are increasing. Approximately 15,000 Chinese students now attend universities in America. And the number of American students and teachers going to China has risen significantly in the last three years...
...hill. We were escorted up the hill by a group of uniformed school kids entranced by Tom's sunglasses (every little kid we met on the trip, in the smallest, remotest villages, yelled "Rambo!" when he caught a look at Tom's shades). They introduced us to U Revata, their English teacher at the East Gondalon monastery on Sagaing Hill...
...U Revata invited us back to the monastery, a peaceful brick structure where we ended up spending the night. The children gathered at his feet in front of the blackboard, where were written the words "DUTY TASK PERFORM" and several other related concepts. During the lesson, U Revata would read a phrase like, "The dog bit the man's toes" and then the children would chant it back in unison between 25 and 50 times: "Dogbit-man'stoesdogbitman'stoes...
Sometimes a film is so exhilarating, it's exhausting. Big Trouble in Little China describes itself as a "mystical action-adventure-comedy-kung-f u- monster-ghost story." It is plenty savvy in deploying plot devices from a dozen hoary genres while playing up the absurdities in the familiar Deadpan Facetious style. A Frisco truck driver (Kurt Russell) and his Chinese-American pal (Dennis Dun) amble into a battle beyond death fought by a 2,000-year-old bad guy (James Hong) and a Yoda-esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes...