Word: yin
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...your cover artist purposely use the tennis ball as a symbol of Yang and Yin? Yang and Yin represent the Chinese conception of two opposite forces that create the universe. For example; day and night, right and wrong, black and white...
...accentuated line of the seam on the tennis ball could mean that Mr. Chaliapin had the Yang and Yin symbol in mind...
...Artist Chaliapin says he meant to illustrate neither Yang nor Yin, simply ping and pong...
...Yin, a contemporary of Raphael's, had a Renaissance man's gusto and love of high living. His checkered career, which began with a scandal over his civil-service exam (he came out first, then was disgraced when it was discovered that a friend had bribed the examiner), was spent between wild roistering and intense painting periods. His Gentleman and Attendants borrows T'ang Dynasty props, slims down the earlier plump models to suit Ming tastes, and comes off as a triumph in space and contrasts. But T'ang Yin could not resist slyly mocking...
...subduing the police, they forced the Home Guard commander to deliver up Kea's 35-gun armory, then looted the village of all transportable food. Just as they were about to leave, they called on the village headman to lead them to the house of Vegetable Farmer Chou Yin-san. Said a villager later: "The headman had to show them Chou's house. After he did, they didn't say anything. Chou looked at them inquiringly. They slit his throat." By this act (standard for suspected police informers), the Communists signaled to all Southeast Asia the fact...