Word: hanful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...navy, too, hardly presents a threat to any of Peking's neighbors. Though it has an impressive force of 100 diesel-powered submarines and at least two Han-class nuclear-powered attack subs, China does not have a navy capable of projecting power worldwide. The conventional subs cannot venture far beyond coastal waters and are highly vulnerable to sonar detection. Nonetheless, China's navy has been receiving the lion's share of modernization funds. Its current manpower of 360,000 is more than double its 1970 strength, and the number of Chinese combat vessels has tripled...
...Wars, The Magnificent Seven, The War of the Worlds, The Right Stuff, Strange Invaders, Eddie and the Cruisers and Plan 9 from Outer Space mixed and mismatched as if by a mad scientist in his Late Show lab. And its Japanese-American hero? He is only the avatar of Han Solo, A. J. Foyt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christiaan Barnard, Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen. A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon...
...fall he was finally given the go-ahead for a 70-day journey along the more than 6,000-mile route that Communist troops trekked on foot to escape Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army in 1934-35. With his wife Charlotte, an interpreter and General Qin Xing Han, deputy director of the military museum in Peking, Salisbury made some concessions to age, skipping a few miles here and there and using mostly Jeeps or minibuses. The author, now at home, expects to complete a book, The Long March: The Untold Story, in time for the 50th anniversary...
Margaret Y. Han, in her piece entitled "Hello, Mrs. Robinson," seems to interpret the recent media emphasis on the desirability of the older woman as something of a step forward for women: a recognition that a woman past the age of 35 should not be devalued as a possible romantic partner simply because of age. The media's shift from an emphasis on only the very young woman as sexually exciting is noteworthy, but does it really signal or promote a change in attitudes toward women? Joan Collins, Vicki LaMotta, and other mentioned are all "older" women who look like...
These celebrity women are not changing or challenging the notion that the older woman is not a viable romantic interest; they have simply beaten the system which devalues the middle-aged woman by being fortunate enough to look like they aren't middle-aged women. Ms. Han writes that Joan Collins "had the right idea when she posed for Playboy--to show the American public that a 50-year-old woman can and should be as sexually desirable as a girl." With the body of a girl and the face of a thirty-year-old, Ms. Collins has demonstrated only...