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...beliefs form the book's underlying message. The most important of these is the Counselor himself, a magical figure who has a strange power over men that only he can understand. Then there is Gallileo Gall, a proto Marxist Scot shipwrecked in Brazil, who sees Canudos as the revolutionary commune he left in Paris in 1871. On the other side is Morcira-Cesar, the military leader who vows to eliminate the religious revolt or die trying...

Author: By Gilari Y. Ohana, | Title: Apocalypse When? | 8/17/1984 | See Source »

...Deng effectively assumed power in January 1979, he began to experiment with a "contract" system of incentives for farmers. In just three years, that scheme boosted agricultural production in Sichuan province by 25% and industrial output by 80%. Encouraged by those startling results, Deng soon began replacing the Maoist commune, an unwieldy aggregation that often included tens of thousands of peasants, with a system of smaller economic units, sometimes no larger than a household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Capitalism in the Making | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

Wanda:Ralph, do you remember Stanley, who ran off with the meter maid and joined the love commune in Altoona? Well, it seems he's back with his wife again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Back Again to High Fidelity | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...every political superstar from Henry Kissinger to Jerry Brown to Elizabeth Taylor regularly and acutely enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, as well as a sizable cult following. A year ago, Trudeau gave his strip a sabbatical and set to work bringing the gang from Walden Commune to Broadway. It turns out to have been a big mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Soon to Be a Minor Sitcom | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...series, throw away his prepared speech and just propose to the earnest JJ. (Kate Burton)? Will B.D. (Keith Szarabajka), the beyond-macho quarterback, survive being traded from the Dallas Cowboys to Seattle? Will California Hippie Zonker Harris (Albert Macklin) keep his crazed Uncle Duke (Gary Beach) from "turning our commune into a flophouse for dopeheads and burnouts"? These problems, and the question of how to dramatize them, might occupy a students' lunch break at the High School of Performing Arts; they are hardly worth a year of Garry Trudeau's time, or two hours of anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Soon to Be a Minor Sitcom | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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