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Spirit of the Beehive At the Brattle, hightly at 6:35 and 9:55, with Forbidden Games...
...bronze lions in Peking's Forbidden City, who else but the world's most lionized soccer player? The mighty Pelé and the New York Cosmos also walked on the Great Wall, toured the Imperial Palace and visited Mao's tomb. The official reason for their trip: a match with the Chinese national soccer squad. Alas for the Cosmos, the Chinese tied the first game and won the second 2-1. "We did not expect to find soccer of this caliber in China," conceded Cosmos Captain Werner Roth. But at a welcoming banquet, the mood was jovial...
...least a few Chinese dissenters have gone much further in rejecting Mao's posthumous influence. One sign: novels and short stories dealing with forbidden themes are now being clandestinely circulated among friends in manuscript form. One such novel is entitled Ah Hsia, the name of its heroine-a hapless working girl who has been ravished by her factory's party boss. Another underground story, The Hunan River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang...
...demands that honesty places on stockbrokers can be excruciating. Over the past decade or so, 15 securities firms have made their own shares available for public purchase. They are forbidden by the New York Stock Exchange to solicit orders for their own stocks, and professional courtesy long kept them from commenting on the shares of competitors But now some brokers are taking a hard look at their business-and warning clients to stay away...
...fact, Leys makes a convincing case for his charge that Peking itself is "a murdered town, a disfigured ghost of what was once one of the most beautiful cities in the world." The fabulous imperial Forbidden City remains; so does the exquisitely harmonious Temple of Heaven -marred only by a huge red screen bearing the inevitable Mao poem. But the capital's ancient wall and magnificent gates have been torn down. Dozens of graceful arches have been destroyed. Whole neighborhoods have been bulldozed for broad, eerily empty avenues. The reasons once again have to do with the politics...