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...Western press's hazy early reports of the armies of the Red Guard marching back and forth across the nation, and Chairman Mao's heroic swim down the Yangtze--events without explanation, a massive eruption without obvious cause. In The Wind Will Not Subside, David and Nancy Dall Milton have made an effort to chronicle the course of the movement, from the first breath of internal debate through to the final turn to a new kind of foreign policy, an effort to explain the Cultural Revolution within the framework of China's history. But it is hard to tell whether...
...DAVID MILTON and NANCY DALL MILTON 397 pages. Pantheon...
Authors David and Nancy Dall Milton were English teachers at Peking's First Foreign Languages Institute until the Revolution. The couple describe themselves as "Pierres at Borodino," who, like the character in Tolstoy's War and Peace, survey the battleground less as participants than as observers. Their experience provides intimate details of the often mysterious doings of the cultural movement...
Simon of the Deeort, with five early experimental films, including Bunuel and Dall's Un Chien Andsiou, Vigo's Tarie, and The Life and Death of a Hollywood Extra tonight at 8:30, and Friday through Tuesday at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Free to Be... You and he, starting Monday...
...conservationists, Alaska's most precious resource is its natural grandeur. The place has twice as many caribou (600,000) as it has people, plus 160,000 moose, 40,000 Dall sheep and 36,000 reindeer. No one who has watched spring come to the Brooks Range is ever quite the same again. After three dark months of frozen silence, the sun reappears as a long, slanting shaft that illuminates only the highest peaks. Each day the light descends, until finally even the deepest valley is bathed in warmth. The ice breaks, roaring like cannon fire, and the ground explodes with...