Word: womanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oblivious to any danger, the woman stands stiffly and stares at the matching coffins. The silence puts on a little weight and becomes fat before she stoops to her handbag and takes out a small transistor radio. She carefully places it on the pine box of her daughter-in-law, in the grave that is the dead bride's new home. "What can it hurt?" she says, looking daggers at the stiff-burner. "Maybe they'll want to listen to some music...
...walk in Guangzhou, the professor notices an old woman with a broom made of twigs and straw methodically sweeping dirt from one side of the street to the other. "You see that?" he says. "That's what it is all about. Is the street really clean? Of course not. But she is making it look clean, right? That's the important thing in China. Everything here is appearance. Everything here is pretend...
They were weeping because literature had done what it does best: define a catastrophe in human terms, at the primal level of the G.I. helpless within the compound and the woman he pledged to marry trapped outside. Miss Saigon, from the creators of Les Miserables, is too long and wayward, unevenly acted and loaded with cliches. But the failings hardly matter because the show takes on a powerful subject, explores it without easy answers and ends in true tragedy -- disaster wrought by those who meant only to help...
...growing challenge to U.S. cigarette sales in Asia may be the local competition. Japan Tobacco, a former state-run monopoly that is being privatized, is already learning the marketing ways of the Marlboro man and the Virginia Slims woman. To attract younger customers, the company introduced a brand of cigarettes known as Dean, playing off the popularity of Hollywood legend James Dean. Since antismoking campaigns are only beginning to build in most Asian countries, the region's cigarette-marketing wars are likely to produce plenty of smoke and profits for several years to come...
...Love your car!" The young woman, who is quite pretty, has skipped across the main street of my New Hampshire town to say this. "Thanks," I tell her modestly, wondering if it would be all right to twirl my mustache. I borrowed this Mazda MX-5 Miata three days ago. People edge away when I park my usual vehicle, a large black four-wheel-drive Ford plow truck with red pinstriping and air horns. But the Miata gets passersby smiling and talking: teenagers, old couples, a fellow dressed in muscles and a camouflage shirt at a tire store, bicyclists...