Word: pantheonic
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...belated effort to raise Jiang's stature in the party pantheon is under way. "Glorious Jiang is the Core of Our Country's Future," intoned one recent newspaper editorial. Political acolytes are lobbying to enshrine Jiang's tepid ideology alongside Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, the hallowed manifestos that form the foundation of correct political thought in China. Getting anyone but scholars to pay attention to Jiang's national mission statement is a challenge. Few outside intellectual circles can name even one of the "Three Represents," his awkward effort to integrate modern capitalism with communist principles...
That's a Gap. To enter the pantheon--any pantheon--you've got to be so far above and beyond your contemporaries that it is said of you, as Jack Nicklaus once said of Tiger Woods, "He's playing a game I'm not familiar with...
...since Devils on the Doorstep, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. Two years ago, Devils, a black-and-white masterpiece about the Japanese occupation of a Chinese village in the 1930s, won the Grand Prix (second place) at the Cannes Film Festival. That propelled Jiang into the pantheon of white-hot Chinese directors. The problem was that the director sent the movie to Cannes before it had been approved by China's censors, who are acutely sensitive not only about political dissent and sex but about how the Japanese are portrayed in films shown on the mainland. Beijing...
...Lots of buzz at BEA about "Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know and How You Can Fight Back" by former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt Jr. (Pantheon; October). The word is that 60 Minutes is interested...
...excitement when you look at this year’s playoffs. The two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers seem poised to be only the fifth team in the league’s history to three-peat, with the indomitable Shaquille O’Neal close to joining the pantheon of truly elite basketball players such as Russell, Chamberlain, West, Bird, Magic, and Jordan...