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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declared that literature in China was free to demonstrate that "reality is complicated, varied and colorful" -even though true Communist art should reflect "the facts of revolutionary life." Carrying out this new literary policy, the People's Literature Publishing House has reissued Pa Chin's famed 1931 novel Family, a saga about the authoritarian family system in pre-Communist China. A kind of Chinese equivalent of Gone With the Wind, the novel was the basis of many film and theater versions until it disappeared from circulation in 1965. In a postscript to the new edition, Pa Chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISM: Two Victories for the Word | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Another Chinese classic scheduled for reissue is Midnight, a 1933 novel about an evil and greedy capitalist, by Shen Yen-ping; fittingly, perhaps, he adopted the pen name Mao Tun, meaning contradiction. After the Communist takeover in 1949, Mao Tun abandoned literature for politics and eventually became Minister of Culture. In 1965 he was fired-apparently at the behest of Mme. Mao-and his early fiction was banned. Last month the 81-year-old author reappeared in print after more than a decade of silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISM: Two Victories for the Word | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...FINE Dan Jenkins novel this movie is loosely based on, the prefix semi- attached to an adjective was a sort of redneck oi vey-- thus semi-tough meant very tough indeed. Novels rarely come to the screen with the exact story line of the printed book--Jenkins described his trials with the screenplay in a recent Sports Illustrated article--but director Michael Ritchie has loaded up the old story of two country boys (and one country girl) who come to the city and make good with New York cocktail party jokes, including a sometimes flat parody of Erhardt...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Sounds Good, B.J. | 12/7/1977 | See Source »

...camp follower cum guru, but in the end he is just abrasive. In fairness to Ritchie, the great part of the movie that involves Merrick and his est-parody probably had to be inserted quickly as the NFL refused to lend much assistance to his movie. Semi-Tough the novel never contained much actual football in the first place, Semi-Tough the movie even less, because only Joe Robbie of the Miami Dolphins would cooperate with the production...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Sounds Good, B.J. | 12/7/1977 | See Source »

...laced with affectionately bantering humor and a gamy ration of powder-room candor, the characters are Stereotopical. The overachieving careerist (Jill Eikenberry) has become a lawyer. The placid one (Ann McDonough) who opted for marriage opts for pregnancy. The rollicking rebel (Swoosie Kurtz) who planned to write a novel gets writer's block. Prosaic justice? All of the actresses are well skilled. They might be better employed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stereotopical | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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