Word: maoists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fujimori is up for re-election in April. The man who took power in a 1992 self-coup had won broad support for his suppression of Maoist guerrillas and his efforts to jump-start the economy, but lately his approval rating has fallen from 90% to under 70%, largely due to the country's continuing widespread poverty. Fujimori has also suffered some personal embarrassments: his estranged wife Susana Higuchi embarked on a brief hunger strike last January, protesting her disqualification as a congressional candidate. Fujimori's Vice Minister of the Interior was rumored to have connections to drug traffickers after...
...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 happen to anyone in the plague years of Maoist China seems to happen to them...
...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...
...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...