Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hubei (Hupeh) province, the local radio station declared that April 5 to May 4 was "Uphold Public Morals Month." Citizens were directed to observe law and order, behave politely and "cherish public property." In Sichuan (Szechwan), the authorities denounced "muddled ideas and unhealthy trends" among "some young people." In Henan (Honan), the Provincial Revolutionary Committee decreed a "total ban" on posters and other publications that criticized socialism, Communist Party leadership or Mao Tse-tung's thought. In Peking, foreign residents learned that Chinese would henceforth be forbidden to make contact with them unless instructed to do so. All across...
...alternatives have always tried to cover the news in a more analytical way than the conventional press. Their editors see themselves as subjective, irreverent and at odds with the local power structure. The Bay Guardian, for instance, rails regularly at Pacific Gas and Electric, the two San Francisco dailies, the " Mannattanization" of the city's architecture, the Chamber of Commerce and anything else it considers high or mighty. The alternatives also like to feature unknown writers and publish long, idiosyncratic articles. The Chicago Reader once printed a 19,000-word piece on beekeeping...
...revenues at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Reader (no relation) were up 410% in 1977 and 298% last year. Seattle's Weekly (circ. 15,000) won a contract to print the program for the visiting King Tut exhibit, and the Ithaca (N. Y.) Times and the local Chamber of Commerce collaborate to publish a calendar every summer. There is even an alternative chain: the Times/Advocate Newspapers, with papers serving western Massachusetts (circ. 85,000), New Haven and Hartford, Conn, (each 75,000), and Syracuse (40,000). Launched in 1973 with a $3,000 investment, the group last year grossed...
...added ingredient is a local restaurateur, Vittorio Bruno (Cesare Siepi), who worships Carmelina and is shunned by her as if he were the prime exhibit in an article called "Italians Are Lousy Lovers." Opera Star Siepi has a voice of hurricane force, but he seems to have graduated from the formaldehyde school of acting. Carmelina's dances look like a jogger's nightmare. There are some songs that might bear rehearing-It's Time for a Love Song, One More Walk Around the Garden, I'm a Woman-but in some other musical. -T.E.Kalem
...Because of beef shortages elsewhere in an increasingly affluent and meat-eating world, only Australia and New Zealand can increase their import allotments. Those two could be lifted by 50 million Ibs., to a total barely enough to meet one one-thousandth of U.S. beef needs. Local consumer boycotts, like New York City's "Beefless Wednesday" campaign, signal cattlemen that demand for beef is dropping and that further herd cutbacks are in order...