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...demonstrated in Peking's vast T'ien An Men Square against radical policies. The T'ien An Men rioters bloodied several radical university students and waved placards that allegorically assailed Chiang Ch'ing. They also carried slogans reading, GONE FOR GOOD is CH'IN SHIH HUANG'S FEUDAL SOCIETY, an allusion to the first Chinese Emperor (3rd century B.C.), a great but ruthless dynasty builder with whom Mao has been commonly identified...
Bernadette P.N. Lee Shih...
...second wife Yang K'ai-hui-an unmistakable slight to the Chairman's current (and fourth) wife, Radical Leader Chiang Ch'ing, who is Teng's implacable enemy. Even more astonishing, a poem circulated at the protest read: "Gone for good is Ch'in Shih Huang feudal society." Ch'in Shih Huang was the emperor who first unified China (3rd century B.C.) and with whom Mao has often identified because Mao, like him, created a new, more advanced era in Chinese history...
...concedes that in her younger days, her own shyness gave her a frantic need to be on the scene. Modeling gave her self-confidence, and acting "is a vent for my fantasies." Last week in Manhattan, cuddling her Shih Tzu, K.K. (short for King Kong), she reminisced about her most notable fantasy to date, Lady Lyndon. Done up like a portrait by Gainsborough, Marisa seems the model of 18th century English womanhood, even to the torrents of tears Lady Lyndon sheds at her son's death. "I could do nothing else but cry, looking at that sweet...
...suffer in reproduction: full scale-up to 8 ft. wide-is needed for their effect, which is to deny one's point of focus. You cannot stare at any one point on a Riley for long. It slides away and is lost in the shimmer. A painting like Shih-Li, 1975, sets up an undulation of space that one feels as a physical pressure. The illusion is so strong that no act of will...