Word: mind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visiting American Columnist Robert Novak: "Every Chinese knows that without Chairman Mao there would have been no new China. In the process of achieving the Four Modernizations, we must be good at comprehensively and accurately grasping and applying Mao Tse-tung thought. There should be liveliness and ease of mind in the political life of our country...
...commissioned to hang in the State Department, was vetoed: Kissinger did not like it. He was pleased, however, by a second attempt, by Houston Artist J. Anthony Wills. "It's an excellent likeness, swelled head and all," pronounced Kissinger last week. He didn't even mind that Wills had "painted out the scepter." In fact, quipped the former Secretary of State, the unveiling was "one of my most fulfilling moments. Until they do Mount Rushmore." Artist Wills, too, felt fulfilled. Unlike Cox, who was paid only $1,500 in expenses for his rejected picture, Wills will collect...
...World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain. It also suffered from an insurmountable problem: for the first time American audiences could understand what Wertmuller was saying. Warner Bros., which had plans to finance two other Wertmuller pictures, quietly changed its mind and gave her a map of Rome. One of the few movies able to quell the mind-numbing trend was Paul Mazursky's marvelous An Unmarried Woman; it grossed $62.5 million and made Jill Clayburgh a star. Some pictures did well but not very well, or at least not as well as their backers...
...more hits than any other: "If you apply 1978's trend to next year, you're going to fail. I believe in going against everything, and I think audiences will want to be challenged, provoked and moved." Maybe so. But producers who agree might bear in mind that the hit of 1977, Star Wars, was revived in 1978 and for two months made everybody else look sick at the box office. (Long since the movie earner of all time, it has now grossed $267 million worldwide.) Why? Apparently because a younger and younger film audience is delighted...
...Angeles, Leiber and Stoller, who are now both 45, shared an uncanny gift for crossing musical bloodlines. Both loved black rhythm-and-blues music, and could write it with such glancing wit and thorough funk that their songs sounded fresh off the streets. It is worth keeping in mind that at the time of the first major Leiber-Stoller hit, Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream pop and down-home rhythm and blues was performed by Elvis Presley, who took...