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...reason for this tough attitude is that most of the crime is apparently being committed by youths. The Chinese press routinely blames the pernicious influence of Mao's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing) and her deposed Gang of Four. In fact, one principal cause is unemployment, particularly among millions of middle-school graduates who turn to street crime or black-marketeering to get some sorely needed cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Pickpockets, Muggers, Thieves | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...seems to be the governing philosophy behind many of the cartoons in this year's collections. The best in this vein is Gahan Wilson's gently crafted Nuts (Marek; unpaginated; $4.95), chronicles of growing up. "You who remember how great it was to be a little kid, gang, don't remember how it was to be a little kid," warns Wilson, whose intrepid, chunky comic -strip hero survives a series of boyhood crises. Pilgrim's Regress, edited by Joel Wells (Thomas More Press; 127 pages; $8.95), is a collection of cartoons both secular and otherwordly, selected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves for $4.95 and Up | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Advertisers want the kids most of all. And how do you get kids? Cartoons! Right gang. Now if you all get in a circle, I'll give you the names of some of those too-sweet 'toons. Dec. 19th at 8 p.m. on CBS is Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," with the late Boris Karloff narrating; ABC, at 7 p.m. on the 16th features "Rudolph's Shiny New Year," and at 8 p.m. the next night, the always cool Pink Panther in "A Pink Christmas." NBC, not to be outdone, offers my personal favorite, Casper The Friendly...

Author: By Jeff Toobin, | Title: How Television Steals Christmas | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Recent wall posters in Peking criticized the now tests as evidence of a continuing "deviation from the Maoist line of egalitarian non competitiveness" and blamed the exams on "American imperialist SAT mongering." However, the government downplayed the posters as "further counterrevolutionary critism of the regime from the notorious Gang of Four...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Peking's Biggest Test | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...Jesse James Gang were amateurs compared with crowd who want to put our elderly out in the streets," councilor Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neill said, adding, "I wouldn't put it past my landlord to evict...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Boston Council Votes Against Law Halting Condo Conversion | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

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