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Still, Teng managed to survive until a power struggle broke out in 1966 between Mao and Chief of State Liu Shao-ch'i. Mao felt that Liu and his pragmatic allies, of whom Teng was foremost, had created highly bureaucratic "independent kingdoms" based on a system that was unresponsive to the needs of the party and the people. In 1965 Liu was denounced as a "renegade, scab and traitor," expelled from the Communist Party "forever" and sent to prison, where he reportedly died in 1973. (There are rumors in Peking that his reputation may be cleared posthumously...
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum). "Send lawyers, guns and money/ Dad, get me out of this." Snub-nose tales of blown chances, aching loss and creatures that prowl the night, fused into a perfect genre piece by the foremost exponent of hard-boiled rock...
...Foremost among the Thomson demands is an end to the wildcat disruptions that have earned the Sunday Times, hardest hit by job actions, the nickname Some Times. The papers' 54 chapels (bargaining units) are also being pressed to accept manning reductions and cost-saving new technology. In exchange, management is offering higher wages and better benefits. The two papers intend to trim 700 or more of their 4,300 workers over the next three years through attrition and voluntary retirements...
...DOES have problems. Cant terms and phrases blemish the work, including, foremost, "nurture" in all possible tenses and manifestations. "Parent" is used repeatedly as a transitive verb, a questionable usage more startling than necessary. Quotations, essential to carrying the book outside the limited experience of ten women, sometimes obtrude, making the prose lurch like some balky pack-animal. And the eighth chapter, a pseudo-Marxist critique of American society, seems incongruous and overextends the credibility of the authors...
...self, another set of eyes"; "no interference"impedes his rapport with the writer. An actor and his director, on the other hand, can never work in isolation; the playwright's words always interject the presence of a third person, as do the other performers. The theater remains first and foremost a group effort; otherwise, "the play cannot live...