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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signal of Peking's intent to allow the colony to maintain its traditional status and increasingly to involve it in the push to modernization. On his return, MacLehose quoted Deng as saying that investors in Hong Kong should "put their hearts at ease." In short, China's pragmatic post-Mao leaders value Hong Kong as a window on the world and a source of foreign exchange, investment capital and expertise...
FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Fielder's Choice, edited by Jerome Holtzman ∙ Good as Gold, Joseph Heller ∙ SS-GB, Len Deighton ∙ The Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff ∙ The Flounder, Günter Grass
...similarly vitriolic comment on the subverted chicness of punk, "I'm So Cute" emulates the "beat-it-into-their-heads" method: stupid words, short lines, and screaming repetition. Many of the other songs on this album, although not deliberately mimicking punk, are painfully consistent with this style. And they're boring. Zappa lets his compositions ramble in a way that shames his genius as an arranger. Usually a clever and inventive songwriter, Zappa here contrives disappointingly sparse and uncreative lyrics. Only his provoking cynicism remains...
Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, said yesterday this many cases in such a short period of time was unusual, but he added that cases usually occur in clusters. "It's nothing to get alarmed about," Wacker said...
...contention that Ochs took the sixties along with him when he went. The last two hundred pages document Ochs' rise to the post of "the Movement's poet revolutionary," and his fall through the long, long Nixon years. The only problem is that his rise was so pitifully short. Ochs had just about three years from his first major benefit at a Berkely anti-war teach-in in 1965 to the seemingly endless chain of disasters from Chicago onward before the movement slid away from...