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...reform program, despite such bright spots as a plentiful supply of most meats. The two Communist giants are floundering, and for some of the same reasons, in their efforts to modernize and reorganize their political and economic systems. Both Gorbachev's perestroika (restructuring) and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's gai ge (reform) face opposition. Barriers to reform in the Soviet Union are an entrenched bureaucracy and a growing indifference on the part of citizens who have yet to see a tangible return for their requested sacrifices. In China people are balking at being asked to cut back after a decade...
Welcome to the "Second Revolution," a phrase used by both Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the upheaval in economics and ideas now under way in the two Communist powers. The Chinese speak of gai ge (reform) or kai fang (opening up). The Soviets refer to perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). What the new slogans herald is the most far-ranging shift in course since Dictator Joseph Stalin drove the Soviet Union onto the path of forced collectivization and heavy industrialization in the 1930s and Beijing's Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, launched the Cultural...
...himself behind a pair in Risky Business in 1983. As a result, says Paul Brickman, the movie's writerdirector, kids are buying attitude, a "street-bad kind of look." In 1981 Bausch & Lomb produced 18,000 Wayfarers. This year the company expects to sell 600,000. Notes Gai Gherardi, co-owner of Los Angeles' posh 1.a. Eyeworks: "When a kid comes in here, he's buying that '50s mystique, that uniform. If he wants to be cool, he'll buy a Wayfarer...
...applying these lessons, says Shra-gai, "my life was totally changed." Today the man who used to love steak says, "I won't touch it." At a restaurant, "if I choose fish, I ask the chef to skip the butter or please to sauté it in wine." Every morning, regardless of weather, the man who once spurned exercise goes for an eightmile, two-hour hike through the wooded mountain trails near his home. He no longer smokes. His workdays average between eight and ten hours, but he insists, "I can absolutely stay away from the tension...
Even better is Kumagai Jinya (Kuma-gai's Camp), a work of epic sweep. Set during the wars of the 12th century, it relates the terrible dilemma of General Kumagai, who must kill his own son to spare the life of an enemy whose mother had helped him long ago. Playing the general, Kanzaburo is a figure of universal, tragic stature who is shattered by his act. An accomplished, versatile actor, Kanzaburo also displays a sly comedic sense as the errant husband in Migawari-zazen...