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...this council, Benedict was a key progressive voice arguing in favor of reuniting the clergy with the laypeople and emphasizing the Vatican’s role in working with the faithful rather than its authority over them. He has remained consistent in this belief and others, though the ideological label applied to him has changed drastically over the years. His recent remark that “The saints were people of creativity, not bureaucratic functionaries” suggests that he will not engage in the sort of bureaucratic crackdown some expect. We are hopeful that this spirit of creativity will...
Table of the Elements is a New York-based label that puts out a lot of electroacoustic/minimalist/drone weirdness, including a bunch of long-out-of-print or unreleased records. Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of their stuff, especially a series of Tony Conrad compositions that he made in 1969 with a sine-wave oscillator called “Fantastic Glissando.” My roommate Josh thinks it sounds like a plane taking off. Table of the Elements has also released a 2-CD set of Tony Conrad’s 1972 collaboration with...
...Chen returned home to fulfil his dream of creating an aesthetic empire in a land still recovering from the artistic looting wrought by the Cultural Revolution. Basing himself in Shanghai, he quickly began to assemble the pieces: Layefe, a fashion-and-housewares label he founded, now with more than 130 stores nationwide; ownership of several lifestyle magazines; and a stable of long-legged beauties who would soon make up Yifei Modeling Agency, China's largest. Collectively, Chen's enterprises earned $200 million last year and brought an East-meets-West style to Chinese citizens caught up in the country...
Publicly, Reaganites express confidence that the President will successfully blend his procapitalist ideological toughness with an informed shrewdness about Soviet stratagems. "He's been preparing for this for 25 years," says ex-Aide Michael Deaver, who is helping with summit public relations. One prepper goes so far as to label Reagan's elaborately prepared briefing materials as mere "refresher reading." Still, sighs one Sovietologist, "let's face it. He's starting from such a low base that any knowledge would be an improvement." Reagan is so supremely confident of his ability to persuade the Soviets of the virtues...
...direct stakes in resource projects. As well, Howard will be trying to persuade Beijing to open its markets to Australian financial services, agriculture and manufacturing companies. "China insists that it be characterized as a market economy," says an Australian official. "Well, it's not just a question about a label. China needs to internalize the concept and produce the conditions of a market economy...