Word: boxes
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Prosperity has come less sweepingly to the main cities. A few individuals have managed to form their own lucrative businesses (see box). But Chinese industries, thanks to their system of guaranteed payment and employment?the absence, in effect, of incentives?remain largely paralyzed by their traditions of featherbedding and low productivity. One possible solution is represented by the four coastal enclaves, including Shenzhen, that the government has designated as "special economic zones." These areas, set up to be thoroughfares for the free passage of foreign investment and ideas, have flourished so vigorously that the government plans to create 14 more...
...seminar table a prim-looking teacher (Frances Sternhagen) whose lack of success as a novelist has not yet sapped her idealism. At the other end sits Bufford Bullough (Leon Russom). Bufford looks like Thomas Wolfe, writes like William Faulkner and carries around with him in a cardboard box the burden of his dreams: a thousand-page manuscript and a bottle of booze. It is hard to say whether the other students (Peggity Price, Jane Connell) are more appalled by the erotic spew of language in Bufford's work or by the way their teacher reaches across the barriers...
Library Loot Lifted: Someone unlocked a Lamont Library filing cabinet and took $30 from an unlocked petty cash box in a drawer sometime between last Saturday and Monday, police were told...
Real world applications of semiotics have tended to remain on the "contestatory" aide of things, "deconstructing," mass media ads in a process much like that of trying to figure out how many human figures are in the Camel on the cigarette box. But for Blonsky, this kind of selling is mere gimmicky compared to what can be done with semiotics, and what is now being done with semiotic insights. Blonsky notes that the most recent, novel use of the point of view, though it is as yet perhaps unconscious, is to sell products for which there is initially no real...
...thinking about wrecking a car. There is even something for the odd adult here: a dreamily delicate performance by George Gaynes as the academy's superintendent, a man whose mind went AWOL a couple of decades back. In other words, Police Academy's gains at the box office are not entirely ill gotten. Mack Sennett would have understood them...