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After her arrest, Jiang Qing became the object of one of the most sustained and virulent attacks in China's history. She was described by some journals as "malevolent as a demon, treacherous as a serpent, savage as a mad dog." Despite official claims that the trial is "open," it will be tightly controlled; no foreign observers will be permitted, on the grounds that the case involves "state secrets...
When money is no object...
...Nobody ever wants to be reminded that he has engaged in gossip. When the object of that gossip steps forward to remind the rumormonger of such a thing, that person becomes an enemy. As long as rumor remains fuzzy, it can be almost wistful. But when confronted openly, the rumormonger suddenly feels that he must truly believe what he has merely been fantasizing. Zealot is pitted against zealot. Carnage ensues...
...strangely limiting. Charlotte Rampling, a beautiful cross between Lauren Hutton and Lauren Bacall, plays Keaton opposite Allen's Allen. In one tortuous montage of second long takes, her teary face flashes over and over, unable to finish a sentence, to complete a thought, to cry. She is the troubled object of Allen's obsessions, and though we learn her past, and even her future, she remains enigmatic. Marie-Christine Barrault creates a sensual French Bovary and Jessica Harper plays a weird, attractive bisexual, but both serve merely as foils for Allen's musings on love, sex and the beauty...
Again, their plan seemed workable: the counselors divided the children by age into groups of eight to ten and began meeting with them daily. Their object was to divide the time between academic work--math worksheets and reading--and excursions. On paper, it worked, but in practice it didn...