Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...given rise to some new problems. The swelling of riches in a few areas has made for inequity and envy. The open door has admitted a host of unhealthy and unwanted foreign influences. Many diehard Maoists, still entrenched in the bureaucracy or established in the military, have managed to resist, and even reverse, the new direction. Though China has, at last count, 1.1 billion people, its G.N.P. is less than half that of France (pop. 55 million). Above all, in its attempt to balance freedom with control, capitalist methods with Marxist assumptions, the present regime has often swung violently between...
...choice of such details is by no means infallible. At one point he cannot resist beginning to sketch a simplistic, two-toned play about a milk truck and a coal truck. Often, too, he is so ready to find himself guilty of every kind of moral inattention and to punish himself unsparingly that his soul searching comes to resemble breast beating. Yet Fugard's relentless self-scrutiny guards him from the traps of self-indulgence. "Do I pose?" he asks himself. "I don't think so-but I'm very given to tears...
Mike might have kept it, had he been able to resist the juicy Instant Bargains offered to him between rounds. Mike squandered his lead on a trip to Las Vegas and he entered the final round neck and neck with Warren...
...store scene is wonderful, a perfect paradigm of the kind of tangled wrangle no true New Yorker can resist joining. By the time the sequence is over, the FBI and the KGB are disputing sovereignty over Vladimir Ivanoffs befuddled soul, helped along by the N.Y.P.D., the store's security force, a nice lady from the perfume counter, a gallant homosexual from men's wear and assorted shoppers. Thereafter, though, the film loses its verve...
Like former Interior Secretary James Watt, his friend and onetime boss, Arnett can seldom resist a wisecrack. Nor is the strapping (6 ft. 5 in.), gregarious Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks shy about his enthusiasm for life in the outdoors. As he showed a visitor around his office, he sported a tie decorated with kangaroos and held in place by an elephant clasp. His 260-lb. frame was partially cloaked by a casual cardigan sweater adorned with a pin that said DUCKS. Says Arnett: "I like the camaraderie of hunting. I like sleeping...