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Says TIME's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow: "This is not merely another catastrophe common in the history of China, such as the northern droughts in the 1870s or the floods and famines of the 1920s, when millions starved. This is, rather, a rationed, regimented hunger that signifies more than China's traditional struggle for survival. It symbolizes the miscarriage of the most massive social experiment ever undertaken-the Communist attempt to transform China overnight from the most impoverished country in the world into a major industrial
Sisley gradually moved away from this Courbet-like realism, and the work he did in the 1870s has usually been considered his best. In the Aqueduct at Marly his palette was open, his brush light and sure. Sisley never played rough with nature, nor did he like to intrude too far upon its secrets. While Monet atomized the sun, Sisley let it wash gently over his scenes, neither searing nor dazzling...
...best western so far in 1961, is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like...
...best western so far in 1961 is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like...
...best western released so far in 1961, is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like-a hideously silent war of wits with a subtle, cruel enemy who was seldom seen until it was too late...