Word: yen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenes 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...
...brac, cowboy shirts and boots, anything Western. Riding is more than a hobby, far more important to Reagan than, say, golf is to Gerald Ford or running to Jimmy Carter. It answers a need that Reagan finds difficult to put into words. Says he: "I always had the biggest yen in the world to ride. I don't really know where...
...Raikes and Ragamuffins" [Aug. 25]: The Sunday school is dying because the church too often welcomes with gratitude and relief any hunk of protoplasm with a yen to teach who can be scrounged up and stuck in front of a class. Misinformation is innocently, unapologetically, enthusiastically and dogmatically perpetrated. Thoughtful students can hardly be criticized for fleeing this scene...
...first half of this year, the United Auto Workers and Ford petitioned Washington to roll back imports. They argue that the sudden surge threatens the domestic industry. Ford and the U.A.W. contend further that Japan is taking unfair advantage of an artificially weak yen and international trade rules that allow them to export their products cheaply to the U.S. They assert that as a result of this the essentially identical cars made in Japan can cost less in the U.S. than in other countries...
...demand for exposed intimacies is easier to understand than the supply. The public hunger for spilled beans is just more of the craving for news, the yen to be titillated, touched or amused by the foibles and agonies of others. Squalid and sleazy tales may reinforce the smug superiority of the righteous or provide perverse comfort for the miscreant. But Americans of all stripes have al ways had, though not uniquely, what University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland calls a "public commitment to voyeurism." Still, why is the voyeuristic hunger suddenly being so abundantly pandered...