Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ming emperors, the center of the world between heaven and earth began in the Hall of Supreme Harmony within the red gates of the Forbidden City. Rising from a massive deep-red pedestal, the red pillars and two yellow tile roofs spread forth in gigantic yet perfect proportions. In the morning, snow falls across the Imperial Palace grounds. It is into this setting that Richard Nixon and a mob of television and still cameramen walk, making small talk and gawking. "The snow has whitewashed the world," says Yeh Chien-ying, deputy chairman of the military affairs commission of the Chinese...
Only Basics. An instructor leads the recruits in bayonet practice with padded protective clothing. Teams of six men on each side lunge back and forth at each other shouting, red-faced and sweating. Another group practices taking apart and setting up an 82-mm. mortar. Another instructor conducts a discussion with a small group on how to destroy an M-47 American tank, using a scale model and shouting his lesson in clear, hard tones...
According to Rippe the monetary saving is only a secondary objective. "The real importance of making our own equipment, clay, and so forth," Rippe said, "is to involve students in the total process of making pots. Finding that they can master the whole process gives people an exciting new sense of competence and confidence. Many students have commented on the importance of an opportunity to become more competent and familiar with tools and with using their hands...
...potency (he's halfdrunk, of course, and she's asking for it, so the rape is morally all right), it's quite conceivable that he should fall in love with her--an ex post facto defense of his actions, a justification of his renewed will to live, and so forth. But the film doesn't examine any of these possible motivations: "And so they fell in love." Period...
...runty nosed little bastard, YOU ask ME to show my credentials? And he does step out of the truck, and the deputies could see him rockin' back and forth on his heels, drunk as a skunk, kinda fondlin' the .44 so's the deputies would know it was there...