Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reformers also encountered setbacks in the arts. Control over China's occasionally innovative film industry passed last January from the Ministry of Culture to the Ministry of Radio and Television, a conservative bastion. Authorities yanked a Peking play about youths who suffered because of the Cultural Revolution. Yet they allowed...
Reagan possesses a sort of genius for the styles of American memory, for the layerings of the American past. Wright Morris once wrote of Norman Rockwell that his "special triumph is in the conviction his countrymen share that the mythical world he evokes actually exists . . . He understands the hunger, and...
If The Great Mouse Detective is aimed at children and their indulgent parents, Labyrinth (written by Monty Python's Terry Jones) means to beguile precocious adolescents of all ages. With nods to L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz) and Children's Author Maurice Sendak, Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy...
Some of the movie's funniest moments have nothing to do with the central characters or the carefully balanced twistings of the plot. In a ridiculously gratuitous, but actually funny scene, Ken is faced with a sad picture of social reality while selling stereos. A streetpunk enters the store, ready...
The Burger Court was expected to apply the provisions of the Constitution narrowly rather than find in them an opportunity to mandate its own far- reaching solutions to social problems. Even so, it practiced its share of judicial activism. It upheld busing as a legitimate tool for desegregating schools and...