Word: dalian
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...breathtaking lie is manipulated by officials with the doggedness of Orwell's Ministry of Truth. A long-haired man is marched before Chinese television cameras, looking dejected. Viewers have just been told that two vigilant women in Dalian, east of Beijing, spotted the errant man buying cigarettes and informed authorities, who then arrested him. His crime? "Rumormongering." His deed? Appearing in pirated American television footage estimating casualties in the Tiananmen massacre at up to 20,000 people. "I am a counterrevolutionary ," the man now says. "I admit my crime...
...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, from Dalian in the far north to Zhanjiang in the far south...
...usual manic genius. The rising curtain revealed a ghostly painted image of Dali, mustache tips rising to eyebrows, eyes piercing the audience. As the gauze tableau faded out, the heroine came on, her two-yard-long tresses supported by a red crutch. Presently she extracted a pie-sized Dalian watch from her bosom and bestowed it on her suitor. There were other visual distractions: a colored tableau showing a large violin walking on spindly legs and stretching an arm toward a piano gushing milk, a blind man sitting before a television set, a beef carcass hanging above the singers...
...simple allegory of an aging Roman centurion's efforts to win a Catalan coquette long after the decline of the Roman Empire had doomed to failure any such suit. The singers struggled against impossible odds. Three more curtain-size Dali tableaux fell, each full of the usual Dalian symbols: butterflies, breasts, limp watches and legions of crutches...
...Jewish clergy) met 18 months ago to see whether they could cross-fertilize each other's professions, they set up the National Academy of Religion and Mental Health (TIME, April 9, 1956). The academy's tiny Manhattan office, run by the lev. George Christian Anderson (Episco-Dalian), was swamped with applicants for membership. By now it has signed up some 1,400 psychiatrists (more than 10% of all those practicing in the U.S.), 600 ministers, 200 organizations (seminaries, medical schools, convents, monasteries, mental-health agencies), has organized religion-psychiatry curriculums at three universities-Harvard, Loyola (Chicago) and Yeshiva...