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...untied it. To my astonishment, I found the padded jacket, the fleece-lined winter coat, the two sweaters and the woolen underpants the Red Guards had allowed my daughter to keep after they looted our home in 1966. The padded jacket of navy blue woolen material lined with maroon silk was new in 1966, and it looked new now. With trembling hands, I picked up the white porcelain mug Meiping used for tea and found it was stained faintly brown inside. It had not been washed, and the tea had dried. My heart thumped faster and faster as I examined...
...lights, as they thought red should mean ''go'' and not ''stop.'' Meanwhile, the traffic lights stopped operating. Goods they considered offensive or unsuitable for a socialist society they destroyed or confiscated. Because they did not think socialist man should sit on a sofa, all sofas became taboo. Innerspring mattresses, silk, velvet, cosmetics and clothes that reflected Western fashion were tossed onto the streets to be carted away or burnt. One day, I decided to venture out to see all this for myself. Red Guards were stopping buses and punishing passengers whose clothes they disapproved of. (In my old shirt...
...that they were a Harvard student group, but he added that “they were not disruptive. There was no screaming or shouting.” More LaRouche protestors were spotted inside the Music Building as Foreign Cultures 79, “Historical and Musical Paths on the Silk Road,” was letting out. “They were pretty good,” Kevin M. Bache ’07, who was shopping the course, said of the singers. “I think they were rocking like a four-part harmony. That caught my attention...
...only 100 art objects chosen for this book from more than 910,000 items in Peking's Palace Museum. The selection, compiled and annotated by Zhu Jiajin and a team of assistants and photographed by Hu Chui, embraces every notable Chinese art, from ancient bronzes to 19th century silk embroidery...
...Santimaria got a standing ovation. But however much the audience may have loved his diatribe on behalf of nature and artisans, they were still hungry for technological novelty. Seiji Yamamoto, of Tokyo's Ryugin, got an ovation of his own for the squid-ink "barcode" he silk-screened onto a plate, which, when scanned, leads the PDA-toting diner to a website that explained the dish's ingredients. Juan Mari Arzak used a nifty device to puff up cellophane 'papillote' with herb-scented air that would then infuse the lobster cooked inside. Quique Dacosta created mushroom "papers"; Dani Garcia used...