Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parliament, came courtesy of the all-powerful Communist Party Central Committee. The point the Central Committee wished to drive home: 18 months after Mao's death and the subsequent arrest of the radical Gang of Four. China's leadership has consolidated, and seeks, under "the great banner of Chairman Mao," to reverse the course Mao set in the chaotic Cultural Revolution. Instead of the old emphasis on "political purity" and total equality between workers and officials, the major theme of the eight-day congress, the first since Mao's death, was China's need for order...
...relation to each other, exploring the way movement modifies when it encounters other movement. Here, the knotting and swirling, folding and unfolding of two or more dancers works a flowing balance between frantic spinning and the entropy of falling weight. The individual dancer is buffeted helplessly, like a banner flapping in the wind; but the linkage patterns of clasped hands and wrapped legs modulate into a series of intricate resolutions...
Coach John Walker's divers have been the strongest part of the Crimson squad this season, and the spectacular high board performances in both Friday's meet with Maine and Saturday's contest were just another chapter in a banner season for this group. All four Crimson divers--Toal, Schramm, Greacen and Craig Gavin--are headed not only to the Easterns, where they will be the key to Harvard's chances for victory, but also to the NCAA championships at Long Beach, Ca. in late March...
Weiner has already set up a makeshift office in the Marco Polo Resort on Collins Avenue, where many of Miami Beach's hotels are clustered. Under the banner of a LET'S HELP FLORIDA committee, the campaign to collect signatures will begin in two weeks, with a July 31 deadline...
...Costa Rica's seventh peaceful presidential race in the past 25 years, an underdog candidate scored a stunning upset against the dominant party. San Jose Economist Rodrigo Carazo, 51, running under the banner of the center-left Unity Party, managed to snare a shade more than 50% of the 755,000 votes cast; he edged out Luis Alberto Monge, the candi date of the long-ruling National Liberation Party, who got just under...