Word: maoist
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...truth is that until Pulp Fiction barged in, Cannes this year had no strong prize contenders. Instead, it presented a roundup of best directors' next-best films. The Chinese master Zhang Yimou sent To Live; the film, which spans 30 years of Maoist hard times, is beautifully observed and performed (the male lead, Ge You, won the Best Actor prize), but lacks the fiery power of Zhang's Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern. Nikita Mikhalkov intended his Burned by the Sun as a Russian Gone With the Wind, a story of country life amid the turmoil of tyranny...
...gentle Lin Shaolong (Pu Quanxin), a librarian. The two believe they have much to celebrate: their warm love, to be sure, but also the dawn of a true People's Republic. Their political ardor can't last; what begins in naive hope is crushed against the great wall of Maoist reality...
...couple have a son, Tietou (played by three children in the 15-year course of the narrative), and all seems well. But shortly thereafter, the family begins its run of exemplary bad luck -- everything rotten that could have happened to anyone in the plague years of Maoist China seems to happen to them...
...signed on to the U.N.-sponsored peace plan in Paris 19 months ago, the Khmer Rouge refused to demobilize their fighters last June as called for in the accord, contending that the regime in Phnom Penh, installed by Vietnam in 1979, was still Hanoi's puppet. By March the Maoist guerrillas had launched a military campaign intended to destroy the credibility of the promised election. During April and May, Khmer Rouge fighters mounted scores of attacks, killing at least 80 civilians...
EVEN ITS STAUNCHEST ALLY COULD NO LONGER SUPport Cambodia's most violent guerrilla faction. China's vote last Monday made unanimous a Security Council resolution to proceed with national elections in May -- even though the Khmer Rouge will field no candidates. The decision apparently eliminates any chance for the Maoist group to be included in a coalition government, though no one can predict what will happen after the 20,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force leaves. The Khmer Rouge, who were responsible for the death of at least a million Cambodians during their 1975-79 reign of terror, made clear they...