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...control. I may eventually hit the sidewalk. I may spin here in mid air forever, continually fascinated by my four limbs, unattached to any points around me. I may suddenly swoop back up and find myself breathless on the top of the building. Not knowing my fate, I ponder my origin: Did I jump or did I fall? Am I in control...
...most likely explanation was what Sinologists were calling the "fairy caves" theory: that Mao has withdrawn from day-to-day affairs to ponder China's future. Twice before Mao removed himself from the political battlefront: in the late 1950s, when his Great Leap Forward was proving to be a ghastly blunder backward; and in the mid-1960s, when he feared that bureaucracy would strangle the revolution and he retired to plan the Cultural Revolution...
...producers, who talk a great deal about past exploitation and their future aspirations, might consider the implications for themselves of the havoc that their monopoly pricing is causing the rest of humankind. The oil consumers, who are the victims of that upheaval, would do well to ponder with more sympathy the OPEC countries' deeply felt desire for a larger share of the world's wealth. In this great global clash of interests, it is time for both sides to soften their anger and seek new ways to get along with each other. If sanity is to prevail, the guiding policy...
...real damage by a system of auto-industry supplemental unemployment funds that allows most laid-off workers to continue to receive 95% of their base take-home pay; but those funds could run out within six months. Out in suburban Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe, meanwhile, auto executives gloomily ponder the prospect that normally generous year-end bonuses will be painfully thin this year. Says one Ford executive: "If there's no bonus, we'll have to scrape...
This is one of those high-calorie family comedies in which the. characters shout a lot, laugh uproariously, cry a little and ponder life's minor ironies over a full dinner plate. At a guess, the playgoer should arrive gorged, since the theatrical repast at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is just an amiable morsel...