The Master explained, "It’s like building a house: to stabilize it, a pillar is placed between the walls. Eventually, when the house collapses, that pillar will also decay." 悟空道:“照这样说,也不长久。不学!不学!” Wukong said, "In that case, it doesn’t last long. I won’t st...
Wild elephants wander across the crowded flatland of India; the forest river banks through fields in Brazil; a ribbon (缎带) of green spreads across.Europe where the Iron Curtain used to be. Using such wildlife corridors (走廊) to link up larger but isolated (孤立的) protected areas is the...
Don Corleone was too weak to speak much but he wished to listen and exercise veto powers. When it was explained that Freddie had been sent to Las Vegas to learn the gambling casino business he nodded his head approvingly. When he learned that Bruno Tattaglia had been killed by Corleone butt...
Little did he know that the resulting game would go on to become one of the greatest, most addictive and most successful of all time. It was June 6, 1984, and Tetris had just started its journey from behind the Iron Cu...
“I keep the cane in the hothouse,” explained Steve conversationally, “because the damp atmosphere gives it a bit of extra weight and makes it nice and pliant. That’s so it moulds itself better to your bare arse, plenty of cane-to-skin contact. That way it hurts more,” he added...
The fallinoverall sales can be explained by: (a) a globally lower demand for most categoriesofpublications; (b) a lower editorial output due to the reform process; and (c) the effectofcopublishing agreements, which provides revenue in theformofroyalties. ...
and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow." Churchill warned that the Soviet Union was trying to expand its power. He described it as an "iron curtain" falling across the mi...
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For most people in the West, the realities of life behind the Iron Curtain have faded into caricatures of police state repression and bread lines. With the world seemingly again divided between democracies and authoritarian regimes, it is essential that we understand the reality of life in the ...
In the faces of older New Yorkers, or so I believed, you could spot the vestiges of Jim Crow—for that matter, of the Third Reich and the Iron Curtain and the Great Leap Forward. What Vojtech Bartolomaeus, whom everyone called V. or Mr. V., had been through, I didn’t know. ...