Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, China has its imposing factories and impressive, lush communes to show off to visitors. But to wander into small urban streets or tiny rural villages is to discover what may come closest to the real China. It is a country with a long...
...opposing "hegemony," which is a Chinese code word for Soviet expansionism. Otherwise, Moscow took a wait-and-see attitude toward the U.S. Noting that Carter had assured the U.S.S.R. that the China deal would not harm Soviet interests, Pravda said, "This is a very important statement, and time will show if these words accord with practical deeds and political actions." Thus the Kremlin seemed to have no intention of letting U.S.-China policy get in the way of a SALT agreement or a summit conference between Carter and Brezhnev...
...occasional evening of blackjack at a casino, and driving fast in a Kermit-green Lotus through the English countryside. Although Jim is away from the family home in Bedford, N.Y.. for almost six months of each year, the Henson marriage seems to be anything but the disposable show business model. Jim and Jane possess powerful internal gyroscopes, which have not importantly changed direction in 20 years...
Isaac Bashevis Singer, the celebrated one-man band of Yiddish literature, has not yet appeared as a guest star on The Muppet Show, and such folderol may, indeed, have no part in his plans. But some of his remarks last week after he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm suggest that, were he to do so, he and Muppetmaster Jim Henson might have a fruitful conversation as they waited for the cameras to be set up. An excerpt...
...problems. W.D. Richter's script, especially in he early, expository going, is often laughably literal, and therefore incapable of establishing an air of mystery as people start becoming strangely abstract and distant. Director Philip Kaufman unwisely gets too close to the pods, trying to show just how the transformation works. He would have been wise to let our imaginations run riot on this matter rather than permitting his special effects people to do so, since all they come up with is some grimly gunky stuff, not nearly as suggestive as the sudsy goo that the 1956 pod people emerged...