Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teng has more enemies than Chou ever had. Many party veterans recall that in the mid-1950s, Teng rose to power by in effect stepping over the dead body of the pro-Soviet Kao Kang, who was then a key member of the Politburo and supreme ruler of the provinces in Manchuria. Kao reportedly committed suicide in a Peking prison after Teng's brutal denunciation of him at a 1955 Central Committee plenum. But if Teng is worried about any long knives, he has not shown it. He is even indulging his old epicurean tastes. Just recently his favorite Szechuanese...
...from accumulating a current debt of over $3 billion. In the last fifteen years, the price of mailing a first-class letter has risen over 400%. In the oil industry, that economic no-man's land where rapacious monopolists reign supreme, the price of a gallon of gas rose less than 70% during the same period. Though it increased its prices almost six times more than the oil giants did theirs, the U.S. Postal Service kept losing money at a continually accelerating rate, while the executive boardrooms of the petroleum industry filled up with "obscene" profits...
Next year, Dean Rosovsky wants to break even, so tuition is going up about $350, $10 more than it rose last year...
...Magic Flute proves that the judicious egotism of one master can actually enhance the genius of another. Bergman has gotten both practical and romantic all of a sudden; having perceived all the traditional problems of staged opera, he has pretty much solved them all, making room for his own rose-tinted theatrics. To make the story move more smoothly he shuffled several scenes out of their original order, omitted a few, altered the plot a little, and added some lines to the dialogue. To make the characters more vivid and sympathetic, he put together a young, good-looking cast...
...city's closed automobile plants. Sex shops, pornographic movie theaters and topless bars flourish throughout the surrounding area. During the day many of the workers who have lost their jobs since the industry reached its peak three years ago visit these places. Industry-wide auto sales rose 48 per cent last year, but unemployment in Detroit and Pontiac remains at over 20 per cent. Average unemployment in the two cities throughout 1974 hovered at around 30 percent. The percentage of unemployment for those under age 22 is considerably higher; half, perhaps more than half of them are out of school...