Word: li
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Next comes Li Xiannian, 78, also a war hero; he has now been named officially President of China. He too carries memories. During the Great Terror, mobbed by the Red Guards, he was saved only by Chou En-lai's intercession. How can you attack this man as a "capitalist roader," asked Chou, when he is in charge of our aid to Viet Nam, where we are fighting American imperialism...
Simenon was an eager refugee from his drab upbringing as the son of an insurance clerk in Liège, Belgium. He took on Paris in the 1920s with a sharp eye for a quick score, promoting himself as a pulp prodigy and becoming one of Josephine Baker's lovers. His invention of Maigret in 1930 soon brought him vast wealth, international celebrity and the freedom to pursue a more complete, often cruel self-absorption. To those close to him he was imperious and burdensome. His relentless couplings, conjugal and otherwise, were by his own account often starkly physical...
...wish fulfillment. Maigret, with his equanimity, his intuitive sympathy for others, his fidelity to one woman, is the man that Simenon never could be. Less plausibly, Bresler attributes Simenon's "stunted sexuality" to his rejection by, and rebellion against, the formidably dour widowed mother he left behind in Liège. (When Simenon was 62, she defiantly returned all the money he had sent her for 40 years.) This purports to explain both too much and too little. As for how Simenon was able to write as he did, what demons drove him, why he held to such...
...municipal bus fleet, beseeched Bay Area businesses to participate in Mayor Dianne Feinstein's summer jobs program, aimed at the city's approximately 15,000 out-of-school and out-of-work young people. And for one young painter, the day produced more than urban art. Tai-Li Wang, 17, author of a design praised by a celebrity panel, won a summer graphics job at a local advertising firm. Her slogan: "We Are Your Hope. You Are Our Dream...
...seeks to eliminate in Kampuchea the last remnants of Chinese influence in the region. To counter the Soviet presence, China backs the Sihanouk-led coalition of rebels who oppose the puppet government of Heng Samrin that Viet Nam installed in Kampuchea in 1979. China's Vice Premier Wan Li expressed his support directly to Sihanouk in a meeting in Peking last week. The Chinese have given him $100,000, Sihanouk said, to be divided among the three factions of the coalition opposed to Viet Nam's occupation of Kampuchea...