Word: hued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swamp scene was by no means the most complicated. The script calls for a Hollywood talent scout (played by a hu man actor, Dom DeLuise) who has strayed into the swamp to paddle by, discover Kermit and show him a copy of Variety that contains, by chance, an ad urging "all frogs who want to become rich and famous" to come to Hollywood. But down the road lurks Doc Hopper (played by Charles Durning), who wants this particular talented frog to shill for his fast-food chain, which specializes in French fried frogs' legs. Kermit encounters all of his Muppet...
Teng, meanwhile, was continuing to exact sweet revenge on some of his old enemies. Wu Teh, the mayor of Peking at the time of the riots and one of Teng's principal adversaries, has already been sacked and replaced by Lin Hu-chia, a Teng ally. Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military region, and Wang Tung-hsing, head of the secret police, have also come under attack...
...GANG OF FOUR. That menacing epithet suggested that the mayor would soon follow Chiang Ch'ing, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, and her radical Gang of Four into political disgrace. Last week the writing on the wall was confirmed when Wu, 68, was replaced by Lin Hu-chia, the mayor of Tientsin. Although Wu will retain his seat in the 23-man ruling Politburo, Chinese officials said that he will be sent to a special "cadre school," one of the reform camps for ideologically wayward leaders, there to spend long hours studying Mao and Lenin and laboring...
...project this side of the supernatural ever promised such metamorphoses. The great Communist engine that kicked when the Winter Palace fell would change human nature Man would, predicted Leon Trotsky, "become immeasurably stronger wiser and subtler. His body will become nore harmonized, his voice more musical. The average hu man type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe a Marx. Looking back over 60 years of the Russian Revolution, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev last week pronounced the stupendous enterprise a success: "Comrades, no event in world history has had such a profound and lasting effect on mankind...
...Brzezinski envisions "a progression toward a better condition of man kind, a condition in which man is more aware of his fundamental rights, more capable of asserting them, a condition in which social and political systems will be more responsive to those rights." The Administration's championing of hu man rights policy reflects this view. For the first time in history, Brzezinski insists, all the world's peoples have become politically active and must be listened to. "Human rights is in the air," he says, and the U.S. is "the dynam ic force in the world through which...