Word: ments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III, who for the first time since Washington established relations with Peking openly criticized China's human rights practices. It remains to be seen whether tough penal ties will squelch the reforming zeal of Chi na's small but active democratic move ment. Predicted one of Wei's colleagues at Tansuo last week: "The longer the sentence they give him, the more unseen trou ble there will be in the future...
...Then they scream and yell for a while to loosen their inhibitions. Finally, they study 30-second films of French students in conversation. The Indiana-born parson's son looks a little like that quintessential boulevardier Maurice Chevalier. He grudgingly admits that listening to the dialogue is useful, assurément, "but more important is analyzing the movement and the distance between bodies...
...come back. They kept repeating over and over 'our young people get educated, they leave us, and they don't come back and help us. Our land is being taken away. Look what's happening to us.' I made a committment that night, I reaffirmed a commit ment that I have, to go back home and help those people there at home...
...After his death it was gambled away by his son hi one night. A mountain on the Li River is called Elephant Trunk Hill be cause, with only a slight squint of the imagination, it looks like a mighty pachyderm slurping from the stream. An adorn ment of Peking's Summer Palace is called the Jade Belt Bridge; it might well girdle a goddess...
...capitalistic ventures can rival the return on invest ment of a movie megabit, and National Lampoon's Animal House is, in more ways than one, a gross example. Produced for a meager $2.7 million and promoted with a fur ther $4.5 million, the film so far has taken in more than $50 million. Producer Matty Simmons, chairman of the company that publishes the raucous monthly National Lam poon, expects revenues to top $80 million by year's end, not counting foreign distribution. That would place the film-among the top 15 movie earners of all time...