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...complained about the regimentation; all his spare time was taken up with political-indoctrination classes and "criticism and selfcriticism" sessions. Despite the strong efforts of Premier Hua Kuo-feng's regime to discredit the so-called Gang of Four, led by Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing, Fan reported that supporters of the ousted radicals still have some limited power in the air force...
...failure to forecast the Likud coalition's upset victory in last month's Israeli election. In China, the CIA seemed surprised by the rise of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, the vilification of Madame Mao and the rehabilitation of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing. "The wide-scope stuff tends to be soft and mushy," says a National Security Council officer. "It just doesn't do us much good." A CIA official concedes that "there's a lot of bureaucratic ass-covering that goes on when guys write long-range stuff. They don't want...
...quite distant future. Go down the checklist of a classic Western's ingredients, and few items will be missing in the Lucas recipe: bounty hunters with no morals; sleazy smugglers who will handle any contraband--including political rebels--and who don't pronounce the final letter of an -ing verbal; a barroom brawl with laser guns instead of fisticuffs; even a posse chase with spacecraft in the place of swift stallions...
Storey's method is that of the playwright: character and plot emerge mainly through dialogue, backed up by simple, controlled description. Blatant authorial intrusions are rare. Like his Victorian predecessors, Storey remains outside his characters, looking in; he avoids interior monologues, allo ing the feelings of his characters to surface in their words and actions. Colin is the focal point of the novel--Mr. and Mrs. Saville are always referred to as "his father" and "his mother" even when the antecedent is unspecified--but Storey refuses to lose himself in a single point of view, preferring the role...
...grab you as really deep? And now we're getting into the swing of it don't you admit, after all, that when you've got it, you haven't, and that what this genesplicing, color-telly gaping, declining-church-attending, microwave-warmed McDonald's Mom's apple pie-ing land needs is "common sense for modern times"? Of course you do. Yeah. But how many more times are magazines like East West Journal going to jump on this bandwagon...