Word: mao
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their adopted Nationalist Army, they hear something in the distance. It builds into a roar, and their fear is tangible, Suddenly, tens of thousands of communist soldiers storm down the hill after them. Fugui and Chungsheng run, but it is futile. Like a stream of lava overtaking them, Mao's forces surround Fugui and Cheungsheng. This scene immediately distinguishes "To Live" from any other film in recent memory. It is the work of a craftsman with a lot of money to spend. It is the stuff that makes movies larger than life...
Associate Professor of Neuro-science Xandra O. Breakefield--author of a study that found a defective gene for monoamine oxidase (MAO) in several of the episodically violent, low I.Q., male members of a single Dutch family--called the conclusion that genetics can absolve a person of culpability for personal behavior "totally appalling...
...severe may the punishment be for the crime of being a rich wastrel in a poor land? If the land is China in the first three decades of Mao's reign, the sentence is severe. To Live, the new film from Zhang Yimou, China's top director, is a visually ravishing, emotionally relentless catalog of the indignations visited on a family that had the bad luck to have it good before the revolution...
...Books: These books are almost always biographies. They are at least 650 pages long, with a minimum of 100 pages of end-notes. The author has spent a minimum of 12 years in the archives researching his subject. Fat True Books can be about political types (Henry Kissinger, Chairman Mao) or artistic types (Mark Rothko, Marlon Brando). They need not be about anyone you've ever heard...
...Revolution Books on Mass. Ave., titles by Marx, Lenin, and Mao Zedong conspire alongside homemade-looking Communist leaflets and copies of the "Revolutionary Worker," a radical periodical...