Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Curiously, Yeh described the greater freedom that the new constitution will permit within China in terms that eerily echoed Mao's 1956 campaign "to let a hundred flowers bloom," an invitation rescinded when it produced unexpectedly virulent criticism of the government. Yet there have been many signs that the limited thaw the new regime has signaled is genuine. The new constitution would restore the so-called office of the procuracy, which before its abolition in 1975 was responsible for screening evidence before prosecutions could be brought. Before convicting an offender, said a finger-wagging article in the party journal...
American Buffalo is not a total loss, of course; Mamet is too talented for that to be the case, and director Tom Bloom squeezes everything he can out of the book, turning out a solid first act. The action--or lack thereof--takes place in a secondhand shop in a city, later revealed as Chicago in a passing reference. Three characters complete the cast, and everything transpires in the shop itself, elaborately designed and filled with junk props. The Off-Broadway's technical crew must be a good one, with careful attention paid to minute details like the drab, industrial...
...decades of civil war and three years of Communist rule have taken the bloom off. Under the Puritan discipline of the Pathet Lao, who seized control in 1975, the gentle life of the Laotians has undergone a harsh transformation...
...Jessie Bloom...
...exactly a reprise of Mao Tse-tung's celebrated 1956 call to "let a hundred flowers bloom," but at least a few buds were in sight. After a decade of cultural starvation, book lovers in China have suddenly been able to buy four novels and two poems that had long been banned; five other proscribed works have been announced for future publication. The return to grace of these forbidden works is part of the continuing campaign against the Gang of Four, headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ch'ing. At a Peking literary forum...