tantrum, brat, taper, elliptical jokes, extraordinaire, purveyor, interlocutor, make a name for oneself. A Thai director's elliptical view of the world

A Thai director's elliptical view of the world

His raucous lunches with friends and fellow writers like Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Clive James, James Fenton and Mr. Hitchens were written up in the press and made other writers feel that they were on the outside looking in. He seemed to be having more fun than other people. His detractors considered him less a bad boy than a spoiled brat.

A bond market tantrum that drives up yields can be a fearsome prospect for central banks but the U.S. Federal Reserve might just welcome a sell-off that lifts Treasury yields towards levels that better reflect the robust state of the economy.

At some stage, the Fed will shift gears and announce that it is going to taper. Have lessons been learned from the "taper tantrum" of 2013?


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The Federal Reserve and the bond markets
So far, Jerome Powell has been admirably clear

'Costco Karen' throws huge tantrum after she was denied service for refusing to put on a face mask

Margaret Atwood on Donald J. Trump: “He brings out the temper-tantrum-throwing wilful brat in all of us. ‘Why can’t I do what I want? Why can’t I have what I want? Those other people are stopping me. Those other people have a bigger lollipop that I do, I’m going to take their lollipop away from them.’ But on the other hand, he couples that with the most amazing whining.”

The ‪#‎MarchForEurope‬ filled the streets of central London. But Leave supporters called it "pathetic" and a "tantrum".


Denise Ho "violated the professional ethics of Hong Kong artists, and also the value of following Hong Kong laws, went against international trends, broke the principle of commercial freedom - such a 'boycott' will certainly end in failure," the Ta Kung Pao claimed.

'Throwing a tantrum': Pro-Beijing newspaper blasts Denise Ho after Lancôme controversy | Hong...

Pro-Beijing newspaper Ta Kung Pao criticised singer Denise Ho Wan-see in…

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 "兩個恐怖元素  (The Terrible Twos)"錯誤，內文都譯為"恐怖的兩歲" (作者用它比喻美國的現況)。

• A child development stage which normally occurs around the age of two (but can start earlier) and consists of toddlers often saying no and throwing temper tantrums

 The Talk of China
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Chinese officials take great pride in how they have used the last 30 years to educate hundreds of millions of their people, men and women, and bring them out of poverty. Yet, among my Chinese interlocutors, I find a growing feeling that what's worked ...
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Google Managers Reject Agent's Claims on Piracy

Hollywood agent extraordinaire Ari Emanuel on Wednesday night ridiculed the idea that Google couldn't keep purveyors of pirated content out of search results, since it blocks child porn. Two Google senior vice presidents flatly rejected the comparison.

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Posin Brothers, art copiers extraordinaire

If you can’t afford a Van Gogh, Botticelli or Michelangelo then its time to visit Neukölln in Berlin. Here a small gallery is a bastion of artistic creation, or rather re-creation. Three Russian painters turn out fakes here of all the great iconic masterpieces so perfect and exact in their replication, they leave art critics and museum directors shaking their heads in wonder and awe.

To the degree that Washington and Beijing now understand each other, it is in good measure because Kissinger has been assiduously translating for both sides, discerning meaning in everything from elliptical jokes to temper tantrums. At every juncture, he has been striving to find “strategic concepts” that could be made to prevail over a history of conflict, mutual grievance and fear. As President Nixon’s national security adviser, then secretary of state for Nixon and Gerald Ford, and since 1977 as a private interlocutor extraordinaire, Kissinger has been unwaveringly committed to surmounting what he considers the legitimate Chinese resentment of American interference in their internal affairs and Americans’ distaste for China’s brutal suppression of ethnic, religious and political dissent.

• China, North Korea and its nukes: Smile, please

  After calculated tantrums come the Dear Leader’s calculated charms

New book depicts Gordon Brown as a bully as poll looms

He screams, throws tantrums and physically intimidates his staff. That's
how excerpts published Sunday from a new book on Britain's Labour Party,
describe Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Brown has denied the allegations.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew3yknI44va89pI2

Yoda

Today we celebrate the 65th birthday of Frank Oz. The puppeteer extraordinaire was the hands and voice behind Muppets Bert, Fozzie Bear, Grover, and Miss Piggy, and he created Yoda, for The Empire Strikes Back. Oz likes to pull the strings of actual actors, too, having gotten a taste of what it's like to be a director when he assisted Jim Henson in directing The Dark Crystal. Since then, Oz has made a name for himself directing such live-action comedies as Little Shop of Horrors, In and Out, Bowfinger, and Death at a Funeral. Occasionally, he makes his way to the front of the camera; he's had acting roles mostly in comedies, including The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, and Spies Like Us.

Sir John Harvey-Jones, manager extraordinaire, died on January 9th, aged 83.


Come meet Maria Tatar, scholar and translator extraordinaire, at Harvard Book Store next Monday, 3/13!

extraordinaire

(ĕk'strə-ôr'dn-âr', -dē-nâr') adj.
Extraordinary: a jazz singer extraordinaire.

[French, from Old French, from Latin extraōrdinārius. See extraordinary.]

make a name for oneself
Achieve distinction, become prominent or well known, as in Martha is making a name for herself as an excellent chef. The earliest recorded use of this term was in John Wycliffe's followers' translation of the Bible (II Samuel 8:13): "Forsooth David made to him a name." Also see make one's mark.
extraordinaire

• [ekstrɔ`ːrdənéər]

[形]並はずれた, 非凡な(extraordinary).

［フランス語］

brat
Derogatory term for a spoilt person. Originally applied to small children and John MacEnroe.
A: "You're a brat, SuperMac!"
B: "Shut up! Shut up! You moron! You're dead. You Asshole! Die now you SCUMBAG! Shut up!"

C: ".... Code violation, Mr MacEnroe. Love - thirty"
B: "You moron! You complete fool! Are they paying you to umpire like a retard??"
C: " ....Love - forty"

interlocutor, 

((女性形))-tress[in・ter・loc・u・tor, ((女性形))-tress]

• 発音記号[ìntərlɑ'kjutər | -lɔ'k-, -tris]

[名]

1 ((形式))対話者；会話者, 発問者.

2 minstrel show一座の司会者.tan·trum (tăn'trəm)
n.
A fit of bad temper. Also called regionally hissy, hissy fit.

[Origin unknown.]

elliptic

[形]

1 長円形の. 橢圓形

2 《文法》省略的な, 省略（法）の.

3 〈文章などが〉極端に語句を省いた；〈意味が〉（言葉が省略されていて）わかりにくい.


purveyor
(pər-vā'ər)
n.

1. One that furnishes provisions, especially food.
2. One that promulgates something: a purveyor of lies.

• 発音記号[pərvéiər]

[名]

1 ((通例〜s))((形式))（…の）まかない方((of ...))；（…への）調達人, 御用達(たし)((to ...))

the Purveyor to the Royal Household
王室［皇室］御用達.

2 《古英国法》（食糧）徴発官.

taper verb [I or T] (REDUCE AMOUNT)

  

to gradually become less in amount, or to make something do this:

The new tax credit will gradually taper for higher earners.

It is important to taper medication to prevent narcotic withdrawal syndrome.

  

SPORTS   specialized

to gradually reduce the amount of training that you do, especially in the last stage of preparing for an important race or competition:

When tapering for a race, the athlete's heart rate should be steadier.

They tapered the workout in the last two weeks before the event.

Throw a tantrum - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

idioms.thefreedictionary.com/throw+a+tantrum

to have a temper tantrum; to put on an active display of childish temper. I never dreamed that Bob would throw a tantrum right there in the department store.

tantrum

Syllabification: (tan·trum)

Pronunciation: /ˈtantrəm/

noun

• an uncontrolled outburst of anger and frustration, typically in a young child:he has temper tantrums if he can’t get his own way

Origin:

early 18th century: of unknown origin