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...theater surrounded by an audience, the vast majority of whom were not even born when I first saw the film in 1977. I thought the scenes dragged in comparison to the manic action of today's sci-fi extravaganzas. I realized that not a single adult in the theater felt the way he did when he saw the movie for the first time. Not a single preteen managed to make it through without suppressing some yawns. The story of the good guys' triumph is too slow for the MTV attention span. So much has changed since 1977, when...
...obsession, presumably born in his childhood memories of a prostrate China and his adult humiliation during the Cultural Revolution, was to undo the crimes and stupidities of the Cultural Revolution, break the communist ideological straitjacket and unleash, as he put it, the creative energy of China. His opposition to superstition and ideology, plus his hostility to the Soviet Union, made him seem more liberal than he was. Deng did not believe his nation could be governed democratically--at least not in this century. Sadly, Tiananmen is part of his legacy...
...BOOKS . . . THE KISS: "It might be better if this woeful memoir had been a novel; its tone of hysterical self-obsession might pass as fiction," notes TIME's Martha Duffy. But Kathryn Harrison has already drawn on the theme of adult incest in her 1991 novel, Thicker than Water, to no great reverberance, so in The Kiss (Random House; 207 pages; $20) she tries the currently fashionable route of confession. Hers: an affair with her father. Harrison?s preacher father was kicked out of the house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost...
...BOOKS . . . THE KISS: "It might be better if this woeful memoir had been a novel; its tone of hysterical self-obsession might pass as fiction," notes TIME's Martha Duffy. But Kathryn Harrison has already drawn on the theme of adult incest in her 1991 novel, Thicker than Water, to no great reverberance, so in The Kiss (Random House; 207 pages; $20) she tries the currently fashionable route of confession. Hers: an affair with her father. Harrison?s preacher father was kicked out of the house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost...
...carrying the adult DNA was placed into a third sheep for gestation until Dolly, whose hereditary information is identical to the adult, was born...