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...Deputy Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping, China's most powerful leader, who had permitted a modicum of dissent in the late 1970s, much as Mao had launched his shortlived "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom" movement in 1957. Now Deng too has had second thoughts about the first faint burgeonings of freedom he inspired. Lately Deng has complained that the relative relaxation of recent years has led to a host of "unhealthy tendencies," most notably in literature and art. The press has referred darkly to the emergence of an artistic "counterculture" and complained of stories and plays that "propagate pessimism, nihilism...
...Prince got the most invaluable of exports-prestige-and with it a new confidence, fresh hope. Britain, like his bride, seemed to bloom. And like the bride, most of the celebrators who showed up to cheer the couple to the church and back from the altar of St. Paul's were young. They will be the foundation on which will rest Charles' eventual rule, and they show every sign of standing firm. There were plenty of punks and skinheads reveling along the wedding route, cheering beside their more conservative contemporaries. If anything, the new Princess seems to have...
...their authors. Why, for one instance, shouldn't King Lear be seen in some truly golden retirement years, preferably in an adults-only community? And why not a tale in which Othello and Desdemona kiss and make up? Imagine Lady Macbeth joining the Gray Ladies. Or Molly Bloom enrolling in needlepoint class. Or Sir Clifford Chatterley making a successful pilgrimage to Lourdes...
...mastery over nature, have handed out nuclear power with such deliberate generosity these past few years? Or was Prometheus only Step One? Maybe Zeus has been withholding the final punishment all this while, waiting patiently for the day when that gift of fire, housed in the nuclear seed, might bloom like golden poppies above the cities of the world...
Many U.S. airlines may be hurting domestically, but on international flights business is beginning to bloom-and boom. Americans are clamoring for tickets to most of their favorite old haunts, especially those in Europe and the Caribbean, along with some new ones as well...