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...ferocity of the Cultural Revolution has disappeared from the tree-lined walkway leading to the red brick dormitories. Wall posters now extol the virtues of serving the people and studying the thoughts of Chairman Mao. "Heighten our vigilance and defend our motherland," says one. Only tattered remains of the big posters from the revolution hint at the turmoil that closed Futan University for nearly three years. Reopened in November 1970, it has been transformed...
...development of a more usual kind of movie, Pasolini has the opportunity to create an entire other world without digressing. The scenery and costumes are meticulously detailed and beautiful to see. The music--all of it naturally accounted for by the presence of musicians rather than transparently added to heighten moods--is mostly the plucking of a sort of guitar. There is very little dialogue, most of which, in fact, is rather badly dubbed--even in this, the original Italian version (with subtitles). I actually felt a sense of relief each time the camera cut from a speaking character...
...songs by the Little Red Soldiers Mao Tse-tung Thought Team. Then there was the demonstration by the People's Militia, which practices twice a week. The marksmen-some were eight-year-old girls who were smaller than the rifles they carried -ran to the firing line shouting "Heighten our vigilance, defend the motherland!" The targets no longer carried the slogan "Defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs," but the children managed to demolish them.anyway. The platoon leader, a 30-year-old factory worker named Kung Wei-kuo, explained that the training was "entirely defensive. We want...
...dominates the entrance to the base where we are waved in by a P.L. A. traffic policeman snapping green and red flags in his hands. Near by the troops line up; they practice firing their AK-47 automatic rifles and butt each other with rubber-tipped bayonets shouting "Heighten vigilance to our motherland...
...heighten the contrast between himself and his sluggish, dissolute predecessor, Bhutto kept to an exhausting 18-hour-a-day schedule. The whirlwind of activity was designed not only to solidify his one-man rule over Pakistan, but also to restore the shattered confidence of his countrymen. He has purged the bureaucracy as well as the armed forces, firing, among others, the attorney general, the chief of intelligence and the governor of the state bank. He has outlined plans for land reform, free primary education and an improved public health program...