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...influence, Mao had proclaimed that all plays portraying "ghosts" or "emperors and princes, generals and ministers, gifted scholars and beauties" should be banned. Instead, there should be idealization of the proletariat. Thus Chiang Ch'ing had started during the Cultural Revolution to build a new "proletarian " art from scratch. One of her successes was the showy Red Detachment of Women-performed for President Nixon in Peking in 1972. She recounts the difficulties she had in staging this theatrical extravaganza...
...thousands of snowplows. Giant "snow eater" machines called snegouborki scoop up the snow and dump it onto conveyor belts, which deposit it in trucks, which unload it into the Moskva River. As the first flakes fall, at any hour of day or night one can hear the scritch-scratch of individual snow shovels and brooms, generally woman-powered...
...suicide pact last November. On sleepless nights in prison, Gilmore said, he has been haunted by ghosts. "They're slippery, sneaky, and get tangled in your hair like bats . . . demons with dirty, furry bodies whispering vile things . . . creeping, crawling, red-eyed soul less beasts. They bite and claw, scratch and screech...
With the loss of Block and Embree in the long jump, the only promising competitor in that even is freshman Cliff Lenz. "We're starting from scratch," McCurdy said...
Thus ended more than a year of the worst political wrangling in Japan's modern history. In fact the L.D.P. emerged so battered that Fukuda last week vowed to "rebuild the party from scratch, and [I] will stake my political life on accomplishing it." The leader of the L.D.P's largest faction, whose intellect had won him plum jobs in the Ministry of Finance before he turned to politics in 1952, has probably done exactly that. But as a man with a reputation for tenacity as well as ambition, Fukuda, a longtime power broker in the party...