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...outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank." This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing ... On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted. - Mao Tse-tung...
...seriously argue that the Chinese, with almost three milleniums of history behind them, were ever truly "blank." Yet in the 25 years since Mao and his 2 million-member Communist Party swept to power after a 22-year civil war, he has come a long way toward creating a new China. Despite the convulsions of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, China has transformed itself more radically and more quickly than any other country in history. From what many Westerners saw as a devastated, underdeveloped satellite of the Soviet Union, China has remade itself into a largely self...
...everything after this is an anti-climax, either. Barnes' touch remains reliably strong throughout the whole play, which runs for three long and rewarding hours, mixing burlesque, absurdist tradition, and blank verse of an elevation hardly to be found since Eliot: "Twill make a desert of this world/Whilst ther's still one man left t' give commands/And another who'll obey them," Carlos says bitterly of all authority. Barnes--if not quite up to the level of his originals--is adept at suggesting Shakespeare, Wilde and the Marx brothers, and is best at bringing them all together to make something...
From the street, the effect is disorienting; someone has deposited the set from The Guns of Navarone on the Washington Mall. It is a squat cylinder four stories high and 231 ft. across, sheathed in granite aggregate the color of flushed elephant skin. The outside wall is blank except for an embrasure; one looks (in vain) for the muzzle of a 16-in. gun peeping from the slit. Such, on first glimpse, is the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, built to house the enormous collection of 4,000 paintings and 2,000 sculptures that Joseph Hirshhorn, 75, the feisty, thrusting...
Best putdown of non-books: The Nothing Book (Harmony/Crown; $3), with 192 blank pages...