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...small eyes focused on you with intensity. Then he would look away, far away, perhaps at some distant vision of the China he wanted to build, or possibly at the memory of some past indignity he had survived on his roller-coaster ride between history and oblivion. His hands gestured constantly, and until his family stopped him, he chain-smoked. To those in thrall to the urbane charm of his old ally Zhou Enlai, Deng seemed crude, speaking with a guttural Sichuanese accent and always keeping a spittoon next to his chair. His size--he was truly tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUCH TOO TOUGH TO BE CUTE | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...roots were watered down to the point that the ska-based guitar rhythm would pop up every so often, as if it remained a vestigial part of the band by failing to make a musical statement. Consequently, the noisy uniformity of the music washed away the lyrics into inaudible oblivion. Unbelievably, however, the audience continued to eat up the performance as they threw themselves at each other and jumped along to the drum rhythms...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: California Dreamin' Charged West Coast Ska Heats Up Cambridge | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

...Southerner since Scarlett O'Hara. Clinton has built a career around the truth that tomorrow is another day. And in a television age, everyone forgets everything within a few minutes anyway--each discontinuous moment being rinsed clean a moment later, sins washed away in the sacrament of absolution by oblivion. But arranging to have his second term end in the year 2001 is a stroke of public relations genius. Tomorrow is another...millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THERE IS A BALM IN CHILIAD | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...students would look to Loker when they wanted to relax and not merely when they wanted to meet a teaching fellow or a study group. We encourage Epps to form his adhoc committee as soon as possible and take steps to make sure that Loker does not slide into oblivion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eight Easy Ways to Save Loker | 12/5/1996 | See Source »

...says a former editor-in-chief of the Economist told an interviewer that he had resurrected the Economist from the throes of oblivion, when in fact he had quit shortly after he became editor in chief...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Will Employers Pop the Resume Balloon? | 11/19/1996 | See Source »

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