Word: ades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peking has begun to disclose that Dazhai may have been no more than a Potemkin façade. In a rare exposé, the People's Daily reported that Xiyang county, where Dazhai is located, consistently falsified production figures between 1973 and 1977. The paper charged that nearly 300 million Ibs. of nonexistent grain, or 24% of real production, had been added to the county's claims over the five years. In one particularly bad year, county reports inflated actual yield by 60%. The exposé was an unmistakable criticism of one of the late Chairman...
...silk-spinning plant near by. The peasants have radios, watches, bicycles, money in the bank, food on the table. Some of them treasure framed red certificates, whose bold black characters commend them for having achieved "wealth through diligent labor." Clearly, the Jin Ma commune was no Potemkin façade...
...Four large portraits of Mao have vanished from the Great Hall of the People, where the Communist Party is preparing to hold the National People's Congress. At the same time, workmen are preparing to strip one more huge picture of the late Chairman from the façade of another landmark, the Museum of Chinese and Party History...
...meeting and the current price of a gallon of gas. Southfork is a ranch out of time, and the Ewing Oil headquarters is a castle in the air-almost literally. The stock shot of the office tower shows a fleecy cloud reflected on the building's façade with the surreal clarity of a painting by Magritte. Dallas realty; Dallas fantasy. The plot is a Rube Goldberg machine of the seven deadly sins, but performed and acted absolutely straight. This gives the viewer options. He can live and die with the Ewings; he can see the show...
...most famous citizen, Jorge Luis Borges, "a great writer, a sweet and melancholy poet," is seen as clinging to a bogus past of noble battles fought for the establishment of the fatherland. Meanwhile, the sons and daughters of settlers from England and the Continent live behind the façade of European culture and are slowly brutalized...