Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still arrested and thrown into prison. Even so, the high-energy drive for economic diversity and the freedom that offers to talented people have helped open the society -- so long as individuals do not challenge the state. "There is more openness in China now," says a senior Western diplomat in Beijing, "than at any time in the past, and far more than under Gorbachev in Russia...
...going nowhere. Foreign leaders wonder at the passivity they detect in the U.S. and whether it will change when the next major crisis arrives, as it inevitably will. Public attention has focused on the trouble spots and the Administration's disorganized, amateurish response to them. Says a former U.S. diplomat: "The top levels don't know what they want to accomplish...
...near term. Some experts saw in that the hand of military hard-liners, but Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, a supporter of strong ties with the West, was also quietly warning allied governments against isolating Russia. "We call on East Europeans and NATO to think again," says a senior Russian diplomat, "whether there is much sense in expanding NATO today when neither NATO nor Eastern Europe is threatened by anybody...
...scenario, based on a real story, seems full of dramatic potential. In 1964, Rene Gallimard (Jeremy Irons), a French diplomat stationed in Beijing, starts a long-term affair with Song Liling (John Lone), an opera singer who enchants him with Eastern modesty and feminine mystery. Several years later Gallimard learns he's been had, so to speak: Song was a spy for the Chinese government...
...order to highlight Song's femininity and modesty, the other women in the film are reduced to playing caricatures of brassy, tacky European womanhood. Gallimard's wife (Barbara Sukowa) spends most of her onscreen time wiping her runny nose and looking pasty. Annabel Leventon, as a European diplomat's wife with whom Gallimard has an "extra-extra-marital affair," gets similar treatment. Bleached blonde and sporting a leathery tan, she perches naked on a bed and smirks at Gallimard, "Come and get it." In case you don't get the point of all this, the script is there to help...