Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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True, Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, makes a convincing villain: she all but destroyed the Peking Opera and the theater by permitting only dull, politically correct works. (Nowadays at theatrical performances, foreigners sometimes find themselves clapping more than the Chinese present; the guide explains that during the Cultural Revolution, when attendance was compulsory but the programs awful, the Chinese withheld applause as a form of retaliation, and are only now beginning to clap again.) Everybody knows that many of the bureaucrats who waged the Cultural Revolution still occupy high places. But the government's propaganda campaign lets writers...
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There's less acting to be done: this musical is very musical. With eight songs in each of the two acts, the dialogue never lasts long enough to be dull. Except when Howard Cohen's on stage. Fortunately, he has the smallest part of the six leads, although he doubles for the director of the Broadway show and the captain of the battleship. Cohen sings passably, but none of his spoken lines carry any conviction, And an actor needs conviction to get away with lines like "It's a chance in a million, but it just might work...
...National Labor Relations Board. While internal disagreements have not consistently hampered the University's largest union--it represents nearly 500 custodians and 50 security guards, about as many employees in total as the dining workers union--HUERA's politics in the last two years have hardly proved dull, as the following chronology attests...
Even organizing a neighborhood, though, requires some interest on the part of the neighbors, an interest the opiate of short-term economic gain will dull. And anyway, the organizers will recognize soon enough that improving one corner of Cambridge while the country, and with it the world, heads toward cataclysm is like serving drinks aboard a 747 as it nosedives into the Pacific. When that realization dawns, survivalists won't be the only ones buying guns. Americans believe blissfully that political violence is impossible here, overlooking the wave of bombings that rocked this country in the late 1960s. Backed...