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...today, he says, "I'd rather play a bad guy than a hero-it would be more of a challenge." Though his Flash Gordon series still survives in TV reruns, Crabbe never bothers tuning in on his old star trips with Dale Arden, Dr. Zarkov and mean Emperor Ming. "I don't have to," he says, flaunting his own credentials as a nostalgia buff. "I have the whole series at home. I can watch them whenever I want...
...people gathered before her rise and begin stretching. Then they start rubbing and kneading one another's necks and shoulders. As it turns out, the main thing on their minds is not physical fitness but singing. The woman signals with her right hand. Out comes a huge roar: "Ming ... mo!" A pause, another signal. "Ming mong!" And so it goes, now higher in pitch, now lower: "Ming mang...
...urbane American film makers (Adam's Rib, Holiday), but here both his good taste and characteristic sophistication have lapsed. Elizabeth Taylor (who plays four roles, including Maternal Love), Ava Gardner (Luxury) and Jane Fonda (who, as Night, is decked out in a costume that makes her look like Ming the Merciless) camp it up like movie queens on an overseas promo junket...
Heymann's comment on Pound's conduct that May Day of 1961 is short, rhetorical, but necessary and correct: he simply lists the principles Pound had uttered all of his later life: "Sinceritas? Cheng Ming? [which means "precision" or "true definition"] Decency in his conduct? Persistent awareness?" None of these were at work that day in Rome, nor in much of Pound's life; and no defense can come to the support of Pound the man for his actions...
...could have anticipated the events that accidentally triggered Hua's appointment. Most extraordinary was the apparently spontaneous nature of the demonstrations that preceded the Politburo's decisions. The massive unruly crowds that gathered at T'ien An Men Square last Monday were celebrating Ch'ing Ming (meaning, pure and bright), China's traditional springtime festival for honoring the dead. For several days before the protest, tens of thousands of wreaths dedicated to Chou had been placed near the massive Martyrs' Monument in the middle of the square. Inexplicably, the wreaths were removed, apparently...