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Austerity-minded officials from Beijing sometimes complain that touring Guangdong province in South China is like visiting a foreign country. In contrast to much of China, Guangdong exudes abundance: successful farmers living in multistory houses, townships producing consumer goods ranging from shoes to toys to microwave ovens, thousands of privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China One for the Money, One Goes Slow | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Beneath his deceptively placid public persona, Lloyd Webber seethes with artistic temperament. In private, some of his acquaintances grumble about his explosive temper, but few dare to confront him, presumably because of his power and influence. While his first wife was still married to him, she was quoted as saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Magician of The Musical | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Gaza has never been anything but occupied territory, in thrall for 500 years to the Ottoman Empire, then to Britain, then Egypt, now Israel. Approximately 28 miles long and five miles wide, Gaza teems with more than 600,000 Palestinians, nearly all of whom fare worse than their 800,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East A Land That History Forgot | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Buried in his sunless cubicle with his cot, his toilet and his TV, Edwin Wilson seethes, "It is to this bunch of sharks that Ollie North tied himself." If North and others in the Government are sincere in their claims of patriotic motives for their selling arms to a terrorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spectator in Solitary | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

Yet aside from its most obvious defect-the absence of Bill Murray from the cast led by Steve Guttenberg-the picture does not awaken the denunciatory spirit. Like others of its ilk it is solidly grounded in three great traditions of low comedy: it is cheerfully contemptuous of authority; it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Greening of the Box Office | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

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