These days, the former vice president of South Sudan can usually be found sitting or, more specifically, slouching while talking softly over one of his many satellite phones, playing with his ivory dang, or sprawled out somewhere napping.
Sacombank's outgoing chairman appointed his son, Dang Hong Anh, vice-chairman.
He is survived by his wife Dang Bich Ha, whom he married in 1949, and four children.
When Americans, of all people, are afflicted with what the singer-songwriter Roger Miller called "shellout falter" — a reluctance to spend — then the whole world is liable, as Miller put it so well in his song "Dang Me," to "lack $14 having 27 cents".
They told stories about Duke Ellington and Django Reinhardt, Dr. John and Bobby (Blue) Bland, about Bill Monroe biting into his first bagel ("Dang! This is the worst doughnut I ever did eat!"), and about all the great players lost to addiction or indifference.
Now, joining London's spiraling Gherkin building and New York's rippling 8 Spruce Street is Mississauga's buxom Absolute tower — or rather, two of them, both designed by the Chinese architect Ma Yansong, assisted by his partner, Qun Dang.
He won a Golden Horse Award (in Taiwan the equivalent of an Academy Award) for best actor for his work in Dang doi lai ming (1984; Hong Kong, 1941), a poignant war drama.
A probable variation also appears in the 1568 manuscript Chrysts-Kirk of the Grene, sometimes attributed to James I of Scotland, as follows; Thocht he was wicht, he was nocht wyss, With sic Jangleurs to jummill; For frae his Thoume they dang a Sklyss, Quhyle he cry'd Barlafummill.
Mr. Dang and his wife, Zhang Fengxia, 52, are the apotheosis of Chinese thrift.
