Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, those lights and shadows illuminate more than a career. They shed some flickering light on the America of the '30s and '40s, when Hollywood had real home-grown stars and made musical comedies with music and comedy...
...since last month, the show makes only passing reference to the Red Guards. Even so, it is less outdated than validated by China's present upheaval. The thrust of Roots of Madness is, baldly, that 100 years of colonial humiliation and continuous civil blood shed left a fractious population unifiable only by tyranny and by a paranoiac "primitive hatred of the foreign devil...
...Beerbohm thought that she shed an aura of lurid supernaturalness. Dumas the elder described her voice as "a spring that ripples and leaps over golden pebbles." One awed critic wrote that watching her was as fascinating as watching a wild animal in a cage. She herself apparently felt like a great tigress stalking among fluttering doves; she always claimed that she once tried to persuade a famous surgeon to graft a tiger's tail to her spine so that she could lash it about when she got angry. To her fans, she was known as "Sarah the Divine...
Judging from their stated aims, Mao Lin have shed few tears over the violence. The possible damage to the economy isn't so important to them. "What is the use of economic development if it only leads to capitalism?" a crucial New Year's newspaper editorial asked. Once the Cultural Revolution has everyone in tune with the interests of the peasants and workers, the work can go been criticized: In the long run, Mao argues, a socialist economy with a firm ideological base will surpass, any capitalist economy. the Russians have succumbed to the short-run lures of capitalism...
...most prominent craters. For the first time they could, in effect, peer over the rim of Copernicus and get a close-in look at its walls, floor and central mountains-areas they had seen through earth-based telescopes, but only from directly above. The new look may have already shed new light on the processes that formed the pockmarked surface of the moon...