Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Leap Forward (1958-60), with its preposterous backyard pig-iron furnaces and bureaucratic romance of communal farms, left the country in depression and famine. Less than a decade later came the Cultural Revolution, a three-year Maoist spasm of revolutionary zeal against the onset of complacency and bureaucracy. The Cultural Revolution dislocated nearly every institution of Chinese life, many of which still have not recovered. A case can be made that Mao lived too long. The Great Revolutionary died at 82, an enfeebled puppet. His legacy, after the Cultural Revolution, was a ramshackle economy, a badly equipped military...
...Teng's power grew, his relationship with Mao degenerated. The Chairman complained that Teng rarely consulted him and treated him as a "dead ancestor." In the aftermath of Mao's disastrous Great Leap Forward, Teng tried to reintroduce a measure of private farming to give peasants the initiative to produce more food. In a statement that would later be cited as proof that he was an "unrepentant capitalist reader," Teng declared: "Private farming is all right as long as it raises production, just as it doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches...
They have been thrust forward along clandestine channels by the sheer will of the President. They have been unveiled in high electronic drama...
...from any basic change in the spinal cord's condition, but from the Soviets' strenuous physiotherapy. Says he: "Braces and boots support the body's weight and keep it upright while the walker is pushed ahead. Then the arms support the body as the legs swing forward. It's not walking. And if the strength in the arms and upper body is not kept up through continued intense rehabilitation, then it's back to the wheelchair." Sadly, he adds, for most paraplegics who try such methods, that is exactly what happens...
...plays Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam the pompous American Eagle and, on Sesame Street, Bert and Cookie Monster. Holding his naked right hand in the air, Oz demonstrates the basics of Muppet acting. "You can do proud": his hand sways and struts upward. "Sad": the hand, with its closed fingers forward, as a Muppet's mouth might be, droops at the wrist and the fingers float downward. "Confusion": the hand pauses, looks one way, looks another, pauses, seems to be glancing over its shoulder...