Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans have seen Chou most often as the regime's suave spokesman and negotiator. He was an instant hit with the American liaison team that went to Yenan in 1944 to coordinate war efforts against the Japanese. One member of the team, John Emerson, recalls that Chou was a charming regular at the ersatz Saturday-night dances. "The orchestra was a strange combination of a violin and Chinese instruments, and the senior officials would shuffle around with their wives on a makeshift dance floor...
Pony-tailed Teen-Ager Chris Evert became an instant favorite with the gallery when she arrived at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in Forest Hills, N.Y., five months ago. But many experts doubted that she was ready for the stiff world-class competition she would meet in center court. Unseeded and playing on grass for one of the few times in her brief career, "Little Miss Cool" nonetheless battled her way into the semifinals, winning one gutsy, come-from-behind victory after another. Then, alas, she met Mrs. Billie Jean King, the reigning queen of U.S. tennis. Billie Jean...
Yokoi became an instant hero in Japan, and he will be given a triumphal welcome this week in Tokyo, and later in his hometown of Nagoya, where there is a tombstone bearing his name in a graveyard. The Japanese government offered Yokoi a $320 cash token of sympathy-his accrued back pay amounts to only about $129-and chartered a jet to fly him home. Thousands of Japanese citizens have come forward with gifts, ranging from job proposals to electric blankets and a lifetime pass to a hotel's bath. All in all, Yokoi may find modern life...
...playwright and novelist who planted a durable oak when she published A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in 1943; in Shelton, Conn. Like Francie Nolan, Tree's heroine, Betty Smith grew up in a Brooklyn slum. After writing for and performing on the stage with modest success, she won instant fame with her first novel. Tree sold 6,000,000 copies, was made into a movie and a Broadway musical. Her three later novels, though bestsellers, were mere saplings in comparison. "I wish," she once mused, "I'd written my books in reverse...
...fantasy is that a realist movement exists in America-in the sense that Cubism, for instance, was a coherent movement with defined aims. The word movement, in fact, is mere packaging: a bogus form of authentication aimed at nervous collectors who demand instant history. In reality, the scenario is very complex. No generalizations hold true all the way across it, and the strongest realists-like Alfred Leslie and Philip Pearlstein-produce work that would have commanding authority whatever the current fashion...