Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beijing's agents shocked the West by "stealing" raw footage of a man-on- the-street interview that ABC News had transmitted by satellite to the U.S. Executives at ABC said they did not know how the Chinese obtained the interview, but conceded that surveillance experts could have intercepted the network's original satellite transmission. ABC's feeds are now scrambled...
...breathtaking lie is manipulated by officials with the doggedness of Orwell's Ministry of Truth. A long-haired man is marched before Chinese television cameras, looking dejected. Viewers have just been told that two vigilant women in Dalian, east of Beijing, spotted the errant man buying cigarettes and informed authorities, who then arrested him. His crime? "Rumormongering." His deed? Appearing in pirated American television footage estimating casualties in the Tiananmen massacre at up to 20,000 people. "I am a counterrevolutionary ," the man now says. "I admit my crime...
...man stands alone...
...man stands by his friends...
...man protects his family...