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Looking at an Asian religious festival, or at the eyes of a peasant planting rice in a lagoon shows the futility of explaining Asian society with Western ideas. What does "medical care" mean to people who believe in reincarnation and bodily deprivation? What does "industry" mean to people who still spin thread by hand? Western observers nevertheless continue to foist their models on Asian society. More tragically, they attempt to make the society conform to their models...
...including such stars as St. Laurent, Angelo Tarlazzi and Michelle Bruyere, had variations on the skirt-and-sweater theme. The look includes hip-length cardigans, frequently worn over pullovers. Skirts are longish, too, starting at the knee and working all the way down to the ankle. Many billow like peasant dresses. Fashion phrasemakers, with considerable wit, call them "BigSkirts...
...other, or even with a sweater separating them. Kenzo's designs included fitted knit pullovers and cardigans in salt-and-pepper colors, sweaters in snowflake designs, and so-called "sloppy joes"-loose, bulky garments bloused at the hips. These are meant to be worn with long, ruffled peasant skirts with tiny vertical pleats and-of all things -crinolines underneath...
...absurd, as well as obscene. Our involvement as an aggressor in Indochina is a prize example of this danger. Without this Congressional Slave act, this nation could not have, in my judgment, been led by its pactomania mad-men into a war of naked and raw agression upon a peasant people who have never threatened this nation's security in any way and could not, even if they wished, which they do not. Our youth are much too intelligent and sophisticated for such utter nonsense...
Born into a peasant family, he graduated from Hsinhua Fine Arts Academy in Shanghai, then commanded one of Mao Tse-tung's Red Army regiments. During the historic Long March in the mid-1930s, he wrote two plays for his comrades and produced a valued collection of sketches...