Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just below the ledge are two cottages, one for Peng Dehuai, who would become Defense Minister, one for Liu Shaoqi, who would become President. The three cave dwellings above and the two cottages below made the ruling group; they met as neighbors, friends, brothers, as they planned the revolution to...
The owners of the Burger Cottage have seen a lot of hungry students come and go in 20 years. "It was tough in the '60s," says Mr. B. "I found it scary knowing that some of the kids eating in my place were the same ones who were rioting a...
"It's a catharsis, a release. It's my moment of solitude," says Paul Karlin, 30, a restaurant owner and weight lifter from Bethesda, Md. "It gets you breathing hard. You sweat. Your mind is consumed by the motion of what you are trying to do and by...
The performances are tense and knowing, including that of Ryuichi Sakamoto, who plays the young captain (he also composed the film's haunting score). But the Merry Christmas catalogue of atrocities finally becomes numbing, even udicrous. Oshima describes the wartime Japanese as ''a nation of anxious people...
Like the best science fiction, Strange Invaders is also social satire - in this case, on the very '80s belief that style is content, that anyone wearing or talking in the wrong fashion must be as odd as outer space. By slapping the two decades to gether (in Susanna Moore...