Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking rather frail,'' observes Prager. ``Older than I thought.'' But ``as we got to dinner and we got into a conversation and the adrenaline began to flow, he became the kind of Castro you think Castro ought to be. Lively. Articulate. Talks with his hands, looks you in the eye...
...when a serious analyst weighs in with a major political critique, he almost automatically becomes a sensation. The latest proof of that is author Wang Shan. When he published his book, Viewing China Through a Third Eye, last year, Wang tried to protect himself by presenting it as the work of a German sinologist. Only after party chief Jiang had praised the book and more than 200,000 copies had been sold was its true authorship revealed...
Wang, 42, is a 20-year veteran of the party, an obscure novelist and a self-described entrepreneur who lives mainly on his royalties and profits from playing the stock and futures markets. His Third Eye was an extended political essay, startlingly plainspoken by Chinese standards but relatively abstruse to Western eyes and far from a liberal tract. Even Chinese readers disagree whether its observations tend to support Deng or his radical opponents...
...Wang is coming out with a new book, Viewing China Through a Fourth Eye, which will offer some prescriptions. In an interview with TIME last week, Wang conceded, ``Even now we have not figured out which direction China should go.'' He is concerned mainly with managing reforms without creating chaos--delivering ``reform in a controlled manner.'' He worries about a revolt by the ``living volcano'' of peasants and says he is focusing his research on how to keep China stable...
Fans of Cordelia Gray, James' female private eye, will have to wait it out. Is James infatuated with the Commander...