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...served seven years as Vice Premier, earned his credentials as a hero of socialist capitalism beginning in 1993. Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping's invocation for the Chinese to get rich quick had touched off a frenzy of entrepreneurialism that threatened to engulf the country in inflation and debt. Zhu was given the job of cooling down the economy without dampening the double-digit growth in GNP. He did so by making himself head of the central bank and sharply curbing various abuses, including out-of-control bank lending to local enterprises. Inflation has since declined, from...
...hurt and curiosity, for once acts spontaneously. The director of The Graduate ("Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?") liked the scene and, over Universal's protests, shot it. Preview groups hated it--perhaps in prim disapproval or perhaps because when the hero of a film has an affair with the leading lady, audiences expect the affair to take over the story. Here it doesn't; it's just an anecdote about the abuse and frustrations of power. Nichols was right to shoot it and right...
With a tearful tribute to his broadcasting hero, Dan Rather, the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, accepted the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism last night at the ARCO Forum...
Strange? Certainly, but not in the same alienating manner that disturbed many viewers of Fargo. The lighthearted Big Lebowski dotes upon its ragtag hero and has a generous heart behind the veneer of its lowlife comic weirdness...
...hyperbole of such statements would be unforgivable if the evening itself had not been so stylized, hyperbole itself so woven into the fabric of the event. The audience and even the sponsoring hosts came less to hear a reading than to canonize their hero, speaking and behaving in such a self-conscious series of superlatives that no account could downplay their ecstasy and still comprise a faithful report...