Word: nonpersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political enemies, it amounts to an emotionally destructive public Coventry. For five years, Woods may not meet with more than one other person at a time except for members of his family; he may not write for publication or be quoted-he has become, as a result, a public nonperson. Although forbidden by South African law to quote Woods on any subject or even echo his thoughts, TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter was able to spend a day with the Woods family last week at their home in the coastal city of East London. McWhirter's report...
...beginning of dying." He had a less philosophical reason for focusing on the burglary. Back home in Van Nuys, Calif., when Redford, then 13, had won a tennis tournament, Senator Richard Nixon had awarded him the trophy. Young Bob was not impressed: "I thought, what a nonperson...
...compensation, Pakula has developed a series of incisive actors' moments that to a degree belie Hoffman's contention that this is not "an actor's film." Hal Holbrook is brilliant as Deep Throat, giving him an arrogance and condescension that make that famous nonperson's behavior explicable. So is Jane Alexander as the edgy mouse of a bookkeeper whom Bernstein persuades to talk about the slush fund at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Penny Fuller and Lindsay Anne Grouse appear as newspaperwomen who help out with leads at key moments?the former dizzily, the latter with...
Teng was forced to resign his party posts, and for nearly seven years he was in effect a nonperson. Some Sinologists believe that Teng spent his years of obscurity reading the works of Mao, Marx and Lenin and visiting communes and factories "in order to gain empathy for workers and peasants." He was, however, spared hard physical labor out of consideration for his age. In April 1973, he suddenly reappeared at a banquet in Peking and was led to his seat by Mao's niece Wang Hai-jung, now a Vice Foreign Minister. By the following January, Teng had been...
...Revolution's Red Guards in 1966 as the "No. 2 capitalist roader," he was forced to give up his duties as Vice Premier and General Secretary of the party. He was reduced from one of the half a dozen or so most important figures in China to a nonperson...