Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plainer. Except for a black awning, a red flag emblazoned with a monkey wrench, and a stream of Rolls-Royces arriving and departing, the grey, two-story building looks no different than it did in World War II, when it was a factory turning out bombsights. Inside, the proletarian theme continues with chicken-wirescreened windows, secondhand tables bought at auction for $5 apiece, and bartenders who are togged out in dungarees and blue denim work shirts...
...more than that. But no need to worry; the important thing about this poor cow-and this film-is that the rough nights and days cannot get either of them down. Despite its scruffy scene and downhill theme, Poor Cow is not really another of England's angry proletarian tragedies. The film tells its story with humanity that is never sentimental and humor that never jokes...
...Chiang Ching, the fourth Mrs. Mao Tse-tung. A onetime movie actress from Shanghai, she clearly enjoyed her sudden role in the limelight after years of obscurity at Mao's side. The part, however, proved all too brief. Now that Mao has called off the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and sent the Red Guards back to school, Mrs. Mao has vanished from Peking's rostrums and podiums. "Hens must not cackle too much," Mao reportedly crowed to his male colleagues at a party meeting last month. Premier Chou En-lai was more chivalric about it: "In recent months...
What met his eye last week was not a paucity of happenings but 1967's "ten grossest excesses." It was a brilliant, unpartisan, vindictive selection. Charles de Gaulle was there, of course, along with Mao and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The 1967 football season, hanging on "like a summer cold," qualified. So did Jacqueline Kennedy magazine covers and the movie Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest...
...direct part in domestic affairs, from running land-reclamation projects to acting as the "great school" for revolutionary militancy. Now the P.L.A. faces a task of greater magnitude than any it has ever before confronted short of war. In its effort to clean up the wreckage of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, it has practically taken over the running of China...