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...three, who insist they speak only for themselves, reserve their sharpest criticism for the Gang of Four, who controlled the Chinese Government until they were driven from power by current Premier Deng Xiao Ping in 1978. "We hate them. They made the country disunited," Jia says. Lynn, whose letters from her father in Beijing "always tell me things are getting better," also assails the Gang's repressive policies and deceptive practices...
...ruin the country; they didn't know how to run things," she says. "Our history books would say a person was great one day, and suddenly change the next." For example, Lynn notes, books suddenly began to laud the country's King Ch'ing, an ancient monarch, because "the Gang of Four wanted to set up a ruler just like a king. People didn't know what was going...
...another case of a late-inning effort for the Phillies, a Comeback Gang throughout the National League playoffs and first two contests in the 1980 Series. But the Phillies had to survive a serious ninth-inning scoring threat by the Royals...
...only product of Adler's plan to improve teaching would be clones of Adler loaded with information about "history, great literature and art." These humanoid teachers might recite such catechisms while their students are trying to survive drugs, vandalism, rape, poverty and gang warfare. Edward R. Pagan University Park...
Fashions in movie genres hit Hollywood in successive waves of benign silliness. Remember the gang-war cycle, the roller-disco pix, the movies about movie stuntmen? Now there's another improbable genre: Noah's ark meets the road movie. Within the past year, three films have told the story of a salt-of-the-earth guy and a sugar-and-spice gal who meet, fight and find true love while trucking cross-country in the company of large animals. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda liberated a Thoroughbred in The Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed...