Word: minigang
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...collect as much incident as possible within the frame. He favored a flash at long exposure, for its jittery harshness. He also went in for blurred images: smudged bodies in motion, heads so close to the lens that they dissolve into gaseous globes. The archetypal Klein photo is Minigang, Amsterdam Avenue, 1954. A boy with his face screwed into a fury pokes a blurry gun straight at the camera, while a young friend at his arm questions the act with his eyes. In the brief catalog that accompanies the San Diego show, Curator Arthur Ollman reads this image...
...called Mini-Gang of Four, consisting of Peking's mayor Wu Teh; General Ch'en Hsi-lien, the regional commander of the capital military district; Saifudin, former chief of the Sinkiang-Uigher Autonomous Region; and the late K'ang Sheng, onetime internal security boss. The minigang members have also been blasted by the Teng-controlled People's Daily, which has called them "hyenas, wolfish animals." The four, along with other backers of Mme. Mao, have also been attacked as the "wind faction," "slip-away faction" and "coverup faction." Meaning: they have bent with the wind, crept...
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