Word: arena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply from the weight of practical circumstances. A Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party does not adequately explain some of the darker aspects of China's modern experience: the nearly irrational passion of such campaigns as the Cultural Revolution, or Mao's tendency to litter the political arena with the corpses of former friends. By ignoring these parts of the Chinese reality, or treating them as derivations of the past, Solomon sometimes appears a bit apologetic for the China of Mao. Nevertheless, his book should help to clarify the traditional image of China in the American mind...
...penthouse "The Walnuts," in the Country Club Plaza section of Kansas City, to 210 guests, including many of the town's leading citizens. Hallmark Card Owners Joyce Hall and his son Donald were there, as were civic-minded Banker R. Crosby Kemper Jr., for whose father the convention arena is named, and Henry Block, head of H & R Block, Inc., the firm that offers first aid to people faced with income tax forms. So were a number of Eastern sophisticates who were visibly impressed by the Price pad. Said Georgetown Columnist Rowland Evans: "Their place is so sumptuous that...
...people and imported seven vans full of furniture from Raleigh, N.C. Even ABC, which devoted only 60% as much air time to the convention as its competitors, put up a 300-ft.-long structure (dubbed "the Bridge on the River Kwai") to carry cables into the Kemper Arena...
Brisk Escort. The networks trained their combined force of 84 cameras in and around the arena on almost anything that moved, including the delegate, late Tuesday night, who brandished a hand-lettered sign that read: JANET, ORDER ME TWO EGGS AND COFFEE. I'LL BE THERE IN 30 MINUTES. Then there was Delegate Dene Pace of Corinth, Miss., who told Mike Wallace on CBS that she had waited for "a vision from the Lord" before making up her mind, and that the Lord had just sent word-"Ford...
...play media games." Indeed, in many ways the convention was a manipulated-for-TV event. President Ford and Ronald Reagan scheduled their arrivals in Kansas City to ensure live coverage on the ABC and CBS pre-convention specials. The Ford forces posted two men in trailers just outside the arena to furnish pro-Ford luminaries for interviews with network floor reporters...