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...problems of industrializing a country so primitively equipped are huge. China's gross national product was only $373 billion in 1977, compared to $1.889 trillion for the U.S. The Chinese per capita income was a lamentable $378. A generator plant in Harbin uses lathes, punch presses and milling machines that were built two and three decades ago in Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the Soviet Union. Japan builds 94 cars per worker per year; in China the comparable figures are one car, one worker. Steel, the essential building component for heavy industry, is regarded as a precious metal in China...
...Zeus from whose brow the creatures began to spring 20-odd years ago, when he was a teen-ager hooked on television. He is the rarest of creatures in the imitative and adaptive world of entertainment, an originator. His brilliant central perception was that puppets could throw away the Punch and Judy box that had confined them for centuries and let the television set be their stage. The camera demanded the use of closeups, and abruptly the old single-expression puppet was obsolete. The Muppets were new, and they were pure television creatures. Today they are the stars of Sesame...
...most controversial phenomenon in U.S. politics: the corporate political action committee (PAC). Last week 13 experts at a seminar in Washington argued about the impact of the groups on the November House and Senate elections and could agree on only one thing: corporate PACs pack a lot of punch...
Billy Joel: 52nd Street (Columbia). Mc Cartney's competition. Home-grown and nurtured on big-city streets, Billy Joel sings spiky ballads and ornery anthems about bitches, grifters and bozos on the make. Pop with a punch...
...actors from the same term-contract stable are to be seen in both movies, as are the same hopelessly unrealistic standing sets, only cursorily redecorated. In the first, a New York errand boy (Harry Hamlin), affronted by a contender, knocks him out with a single punch and is induced to abandon his quest for a night-school law degree in order to enter the square circle (about the only cliche not to be heard in the script), in order to earn money for an operation to save his sister's eyesight. "You'll be on the next train...