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Since the fighter-plane decision, China has become testier in its comments about the U.S., even referring to it as a "hegemonist power," an epithet that the Chinese had long reserved for the hated Soviets. Deng Xiaoping told a visiting U.S. businessman that relations between the two countries were "not good," and the New China News Agency has spoken obliquely of a possible "retrogression" in the friendship. There were no speeches or celebrations in China to mark the close of the "American decade...
...political cooperation. Under the new arrangement, the Soviets will finish constructing a hydroelectric dam and two power plants in Iran that they had begun building under the Shah. Iranian Energy Minister Hassan Ghafurifard declared in Moscow that the Soviet Union is a "friendly country," a telling contrast to the epithet "aggressor superpower of the East" that Iran had until recently reserved for the U.S.S.R...
...being barbecued. He is no Mahiavelli, but a quick-witted opportunist handed a turkey and a shotgun. Recongnizing this, his frame swells with cookiness. It's gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through the fog of general ignorance. He's pure enough at first to earn the epithet "honest": "Beware, my lord, of jealousy," he says firmly, and villain and councilor splendidly maege. When he cries out in solioquy that he will "enmesh" the Moor, Plummer squceezes himself into the most virile villain ever to singe a stage, a mad master of improvisation, and he rides this evergy...
...Europe after the Great War. Because these folks were socialists, self-described friends of the workers, they would design for the working class with the materials of the industrial age. The Bauhaus crowd rejected anything tainted by the bourgeoisie; as Wolfe tells it, they regarded bourgeois as an epithet. "To be non-bourgeois," Wolfe writes, "art must be machine-made." And so the (tool) die was cast...
...symbolizes another kind of "fall," not only in New York, but in all of America. Robert Moses was an "expert:" he always had the charts and the numbers to prove that his plan was the best--indeed, the only--way to proceed. Moses viewed the word "politician" as an epithet, bespeaking smoke-filled rooms and electoral machines and corruption. "In forty years of public life," he once thundered at a trial of a borough president. "I have never made a deal." For years the description of "above politics" absolved Moses, in the eyes of the public, from any role...