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Mao reveals himself best by his pungent use of language. Rather like Nikita Khrushchev, he likes to draw on folk tales and proverbs to contrive devastating metaphors against his opponents. He is also fond of quoting from classical Chinese literature. In a 1959 meeting, he cited a Han Dynasty poet...
Delicious Deception. Journalists had a field day. How delicious is the deception of the rich! What a blow for aesthetic egalitarianism! And what a cast of characters! Front men for the operation were a pair of homosexuals named Fernand Legros and Réal Lessard. Legros, a French-Egyptian given...
Table Volcano. A big, burly man who looks like a scholarly truck driver or an agile Bacchus, Oldenburg is shy but not modest. "I am a magician," he says. "A magician brings dead things to life." His sculptures of food, for example. Typical, terrible American cuisine fascinates him, the kinds...
IN THE EVENING, while the girls cooked dinner, Donovan and the boys went down to the pub. A Scottish fellow had hitched in that day with his guitar, and he and Donovan sang a few old ballads together: then Donovan gave his autograph to a girl who was at the...
Dry Rot. What is more, the barriers between Bulgarians and bourgeois foreigners are beginning to tumble. As the most repressive and Sovietized state in the East bloc, Bulgaria is considered to be the only truly "safe" vacationland for Soviet and East German citizens, who are rarely allowed to travel to...