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...Maria Muldaur, the "Rock Women" celebrated in Time's cover story last December. Joni Mitchell is still queen though, and for some men she is to rock what Beatrice was to Dante, with a voice like sweet molasses lifting them into a gossamer fantasy world of free-ee lu-huh-huv. According to Time, "She is the rural neophyte waiting in a subway, a free spirit drinking Greek wine in the moonlight, an organic Earth Mother dispensing fresh bread and herb tea, and the reticent feminist who by trial and error has created the male as well as the female...
...bookstores have lots of the early twentieth century writer Lu Hsun, and lots of Mao, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Stalin, according to one of Mao's speeches that officials are happy to quote if you bring the matter up, was a mixture of good and bad: 70 per cent good and 30 per cent bad. The woman from the Friendship Association said the classic romances always sell out as soon as they're reprinted, and some people also like the poetry of the Tang dynasty. We talked a little with a playwright associated with the Sian Official Troupe, which...
...Shantung province, he spent his life as an itinerant office seeker, wandering throughout the feudal kingdoms into which China was then divided, looking for a ruler who would put his ideas about government into practice. Except for a few months as a minister in his native state of Lu, he remained unemployed until his death in 479 B.C. But, like Socrates, he ensured that his teachings would live on after him by imparting them to a devoted group of disciples...
...first book suffers inevitably from a sense of déjà lu. It not only draws heavily on those earlier articles, it trades on childhood experiences shared to some extent by every reader. Even the author's self pity seems a bit wilted. On the very first page, she complains of a childhood "when being young meant finishing your milk and missing Twilight Zone...
...seemingly insurmountable five-stroke lead. Then, on the treacherous 17th hole on the rolling moonscape of the Royal Birkdale Golf Club, he ran afoul of one of the crater-like traps and took a double bogey. That left him just one stroke ahead of Formosa's surprising Liang Huan Lu...