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...Peking vocabulary sounds unexpected--a national income tax, and incredible stress on incentive--but China's new course is not the "sudden shift" that some have labeled it. Faintly tinged with ideas tried after the great failure of the Great Leap Forward, it is more the culmination of post-Gang of Four policies than a clean, radical break with the past. More than anything, in fact, it is a symbol of Deng's new muscle--finally, he feels, he is powerful enough to do what he has always wanted...
Although this gang sounds like it belongs on a super heroes cartoon, it actually represents the line-up of this season's women's cross country squad, according to coach Robert "Pappy" Hunt, who is partial to nicknames and dubs each runner appropriately...
...Four Horsemen) and they move through every campaign in the Second World War--North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, and finally a mop-up of the Eastern Front--without a scratch. While the wetnose replacements who join them for each campaign get shot to pieces, Marvin and his gang survive with a magical invincibility...
...film to provoke violence may have less to do with the quantity or treatment of violence than with the director's ability to placate the emotions that he/she has whipped up. Take the controversy over Walter Hill's The Warriors. This stupidly written but stirringly staged 1979 gang melodrama was blamed for several murders and numerous acts of violence. Once again, fingers wagged and the debate over violence in movies resumed. A writer in Film Comment, however, argued very persuasively that while the violence in The Warriors was unquestionably a turn-on, the movie's limp, unsatisfying ending was more...
...Organization of African Unity in Sierra Leone after rejecting the precondition set by some of the O.A.U.'s most influential members: the immediate release of the late President's son, A.B. Tolbert, who had been snatched from asylum in Monrovia's French embassy by a gang of unruly soldiers. The embassy invasion touched off an angry row with Paris, one of Liberia's major European aid donors...