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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...society where the wall poster is the semiofficial harbinger of political shifts and cultural upheavals, the document on Wang Fu Ching Street was undeniably momentous. As part of a continuing campaign to deglorify Mao Tsetung, the poster dared for the first time to criticize the late Great Helmsman by name for serious political mistakes. Indirectly, in a move that could have ominous repercussions, the poster also criticized Hua Kuo-feng, Mao's chosen successor as Party Chairman and Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mao Tse-tung to the Wall | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...need and the cash to buy plenty of cosmetics, sales this year are running 23% over last year's record $1.6 billion. Costume jewelry has become Avon's fastest-growing line, from nothing in 1970 to $260 million last year. Avon does not intend to abuse the Tiffany name in flogging its own cheaper wares. Says John Riedy, an analyst at Drexel, Burnham, Lambert: "That would be like putting a Rolls Royce label on a Pinto." Instead, the company plans next year to test-market a whole new line: door-to-door vitamins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Avon Calling | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

BORN. To Michael Bilandic, 55, mayor of Chicago, and Heather Morgan Bilandic, 35: their first child, a son; in Chicago. Name: Michael Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 4, 1978 | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...cake for Bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, who weighs in at 215. In fact, both stars of Hal Needham's upcoming comedy western, The Villain, are trim and fit. Says Arnold: "Ann-Margret can run six miles without breathing hard." Only good form, of course, to hold the third bankable name in the cast up for praise, too. "Kirk Douglas is very muscular and lean and in great shape," judges Schwarzenegger. "I've never seen him step onto a horse, he jumps." Oh, and the horse! It's actually six look-alike horses who do different stunts, rolling over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 4, 1978 | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...whatever name it goes, however, Curry's show, which includes twelve other talented skater-dancers, is one of the most sumptuous treats of this year's holiday season, two hours of fascinating movement and sometimes astonishing beauty. It is at once brand new, perhaps even pioneering, and reassuringly familiar, the combination of two long-established disciplines to create something strikingly fresh and original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Ballet Dancing on the Ice | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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