Word: clangs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last the curtain fell again, with the disturbing clang of a prison door closing. Li Peng appeared on television for the first time since martial law was declared, receiving -- as if to underscore his legitimacy -- a covey of newly arrived ambassadors. The Premier declared that the soldiers would move into Beijing as soon as the city's residents understood the need to restore order. From all available signs, Deng Xiaoping had cast his lot with the hard- line faction headed by Li. The losers were a more reformist group led by party chief Zhao Ziyang. Diplomatic sources said that Zhao...
IMPERIAL BELLS OF CHINA. The clang and whir of hypnotic musical instruments, the swish of dancers' 6-ft. sleeves and the rainbow splendor of ceremonial robes are explained by Gregory Peck's recorded narration in this imported spectacle now touring...
IMPERIAL BELLS OF CHINA. The clang and whir of hypnotic musical instruments, the swish of dancers' 6-ft. sleeves and the rainbow splendor of ceremonial robes are explained by Gregory Peck's recorded narration in this imported spectacle now touring...
Careful, there. This is no ordinary statue you're adjusting, but one representing the father of the state, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the man who renamed himself Lenin and reshaped Russia in the Bolshevik Revolution. One crucial slip by workers at Moscow's All-Union Artistic-Production Association (hear the clang of bureaucracy in that name), and they must pour a whole new mold. In attempting nothing less than a second revolution, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is also adjusting Lenin, paying lip service to his dogma even while reshaping it to fit the needs of the U.S.S.R. The task is a delicate...
...riot troops, wearing gas masks and holding clubs and shields, fired tear gas to disperse protesters. The clang of pots and pans--a familiar symbol now of anti-government protest--rang out from some apartment buildings...