Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joint communique on TV in the U.S., Hua Kuo-feng, China's Premier and Communist Party Chairman, was reading the statement to about 100 Western and Communist reporters in Peking. It was the first press conference ever held by a Chinese Communist Party Chairman, and Hua was in good form. He even answered a few questions, ritualistically describing Taiwan as "a sacred territory of our country" and its people as "compatriots of our own flesh and blood...
...women. Nearly 40% of the students in Iran's universities are women. The government-financed Women's Organization of Iran has set up day care centers, marriage counseling centers and classes to teach women to read and write. Women now do much of the farm work, form a substantial proportion of the skilled manual labor force and serve in the army and navy...
...future of women under an Islamic government has become a controversial issue. Ironically, many educated women are taking more traditional views as a form of political involvement and protest against the Shah's autocratic rule. The day care centers are now almost deserted. Many of the young women who took to skirts, slacks and blue jeans as signs of their emancipation have gone back to the ankle-length chador. Intended to hide the female form, it has been worn in Persia since the ninth century. Religious law requires that it be worn outdoors at all times and indoors...
...bird? A plane? No, it's a "whale coming out of the water," says Henry Moore, 80, of his latest free-form sculpture. Architect I.M. Pel, 61, thinks it looks more like "the Loch Ness monster." This artistic debate took place at the unveiling of the 27,000-lb. bronze in front of Dallas' new city hall, designed by Pei. "Until this arrived," Pei said, "I felt something was missing." A few spectators, however, thought something was still amiss. "Is this a junkyard?" asked one. Moore was undaunted. "People shouldn't immediately expect to cotton onto something...
There can be no quarrel about the acting. De Niro, Walken, John Savage, as an other Clairton pal who goes to war, and Meryl Streep, as a woman left behind, are all top actors in extraordinary form...