Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wa11 that has so long imprisoned China in its immense, opaque privacy collapsed so fast that some imaginations projected a regretful vision of the Middle Kingdom overrun by Instamatics and McDonald's. (In fact, the Chinese have consulted McDonald's executives about possible fast-food techniques for use in China.) Inter-Continental Hotels plans to build within three years a chain of 1,000-room hotels, complete with swimming pools and saunas, in Peking Canton, Shanghai and other major cities. Hyatt International has proposed the construction of hotels with a total capacity of 10,000 rooms. Pan American and several...
...fact, the Chinese are being conditioned with some care to accept doctrine so heretically un-Maoist that it could
...fact, there seems little danger that such revisionists will be taken seriously. If they have any useful function it is to spark Wiesel into passages that recall Isaac Bashevis Singer's definition of Jews as "a people who can't sleep themselves and let nobody else sleep." While Elie Wiesel lives and writes, there will be no rest for the wicked, the uncaring or any one else...
...think that they could take over a huge metropolitan area without arousing opposition from more than a handful of people or the interest of the press, which might be counted on to observe with interest phe nomena like masses of citizens, lined up to collect their pods. The fact is that this film wants to have it both ways: to have a more urbane, more "important" scope than the original, and yet retain some of its inexpensive intimacy as well...
...come to a dead standstill, however, and the record of the trends and tendencies of the brief post-'60s period has become clear enough. So has the fact that the record is shot through with perplexing contradictions. Any attentive observer could jot down a fast thumbnailer...