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...face of these difficulties, even some of the most resourceful reporters, like David Bonavia of the London Times and Ulrich Grudinski of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, lean toward dry accounts based on official pronouncements, whether the subject is the latest grain harvest or the smear-Confucius campaign. When Grudinski has the urge to talk to expert sources, he pops down to Hong Kong to mingle with the community of professional China watchers there. The most limited correspondents of all are the Japanese, who operate under rigid self-censorship. When the Japanese were re-admitted following the Cultural Revolution, the major...
...hotel in which I was staying towered above the humble buildings of the Indian Quarters. Early one afternoon, I began walking through the narrow streets of the marketplace. Each block had its own special goods on sale. The first street I entered was the grain district. Along both sides plump, dark-faced women, wearing hats that looked like British bowlers, were sitting behind open sacks filled with flours and cereals of all different colors and textures. I wandered through the crowds that moved in a relentless parade up and down the streets. A fat peasant woman, her small son sketching...
...that had been appearing frequently in the newspapers, of people starving on the diet, of dying from salt poisoning and malnutrition, would hardly signal caution to Kimberly, who had a habit of extremism. And soon enough, macrobiotics had become her new gospel. Following Regime No. 7, no more than grain and tea, she cut out all drugs and stopped having sex. She stopped talking and living everything but the new found religion of macrobiotics. She would, of course, located in the system what seemed a salve to her pain. For someone whose trips had turned into nightmares could...
Four weeks later she had lost 25 pounds, her skin had sunk into sallow caves in her face. After five weeks she had strength only to fix her daily grain and tea, and she had lost muscle control so she would scatter the food in spasms that shook her as she prepared...
...does not mind demanding considerable reading time. Under a cartoon showing Uncle Sam and a small boy strolling through a smudged wasteland, Wright placed the caption: "Well, our spacious skies got dirty when we cut back on clean air standards and we sold the amber waves of grain to other countries. The purple mountain majesties were gutted for strip mining and the fruited plain was leased to Exxon, not to mention the oil derricks offshore from sea to shining...