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...stores, into parks, with their two-cent admission fees and another two cents to park your bicycle outside--was often one of the most interesting things to do. In Peking there had been Tien An Men Square, where the People's Republic was proclaimed on October 1, 1949--a gorgeous vast expanse of people chatting or walking in the summer evening. In Shanghai there had been the early morning crowd of exercisers, and at night people playing cards or talking in the middle of the street, and the couples standing on the Bund watching the river, and sometimes boys shouting...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Culture and Anarchy in China | 12/11/1974 | See Source »

...dictator. Eventually he understood that he was not suited for politics, but maybe it is just as well, as he did not return from the wars. He might not have known what to do with peacetime, and the nation might not have known what to do with Gorgeous George. ∙Lance Morrow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gorgeous George | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...Marvin Gaye Show. This is Marvin Gaye's first tour in more than three years. This time he's added a show consisting of a sizeable back-up band, chorus, and an MC who goes by the name of Gorgeous George. Reliable sources tell me he's got to be seen to be believed. The live performance is representative of his album release, so unless you want to witness a living legend, it might be wiser to pick up the album. The concert's this Friday, October 11, 8:30 p.m. at the Boston Garden. Tickets...

Author: By John Porter, | Title: Rock and Folk | 10/10/1974 | See Source »

...third here at Stratford. The 1959 production's Juliet was Inga Swenson, who was then in her late twenties but did manage to seem consistently adolescent as well as unfailingly musical; her Romeo, however, was deficient. Six seasons later the situation was reversed: Terence Scammell was an absolutely gorgeous Romeo, with an inadequate Juliet. It is the 1965 combination that faces us again this summer...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Juliet Not Good Enough for Her Romeo | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

...cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Contemporary Bard | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

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