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Deng's efforts are now focused on extending the reforms from the countryside, where they have worked extremely well, to the cities. Shortly after he emerged as China's supreme leader in 1979, he established an incentive system for peasants that allowed them, once they had turned over a share of their crops to the government, to sell the rest on the open market. Despite sniping from diehard Maoists, the innovations were a smashing success: the grain harvest, for example, rose from 320 million tons in 1980 to a record 400 million last year, and average peasant income more than...
...young woman of Latin descent--she was extremely short and wore a headband and some kind of peasant dress--nudged my arm, looked up at me, and said, "We're Maoist utopians and we're prepared to fight to the death." I smiled politely...
Sandrine Bonnaire has a peasant sensuality; naked, she looks like the figurehead on a pirate ship. The camera closes in on the stolid planes of her face, and voilà a deep dimple appears incongruously in her left cheek. From wanton to elfin in the flick of an adolescent whim-such are the compelling mysteries of personality. Bonnaire stars as the teen-age Suzanne in this doggedly unsentimental French film from Writer-Director Maurice Pialat. Suzanne's family has stayed together by corseting all hostilities. Then she discovers the power of her own erotic impulse. Overnight, Daddy...
Women have usually defined the general culture of any nation-from the court of the king to the kitchen of the peasant. But no nation has seen such a new coloration given to a culture as American women have given to the U.S. They now share equally in the forum of television: woman anchor teamed with male anchor. Women's bar associations, women's alumnae associations, women analysts' associations form everywhere. Curiously, all-male organizations are now considered sexist, women's organizations praiseworthy...
Another bizarre event last week slightly bruised relations between Duarte and the U.S. A Salvadoran peasant union member told the U.S. embassy that his 14-year-old son had been murdered by a right-wing death squad. Embassy officials promptly issued a statement denouncing the killing and urging a government inquiry. President Duarte scolded the mission for not informing him first or verifying the facts. Six days later, the union member, Alirio Montes, offered such a jumbled, contradictory story that union officials concluded the killing never happened. Said Ambassador Pickering: "We were reacting to what we thought was a bona...