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...taboo, and the culture cops occasionally shutter avant-garde exhibitions. Nevertheless, ironic depictions of Chairman Mao and not-so-subtle critiques of official corruption or urban alienation fill Beijing and Shanghai galleries. Some artists, particularly those who grew up during the Cultural Revolution, playfully twist that era's socialist-realist propaganda art - think heroic laborers, red-cheeked peasants and stalwart soldiers lifting banners with brand names or consumerist messages. Best known among these political popsters is Wang Guangyi, whose painting of Mao behind bars sold for $4 million last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Color Of Money | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

...hour workweek. With the passage of time and inflation, that has placed a strain on purchasing power - a concern listed by voters at the top of many polls. "Just as the French people are worrying about their purchasing power, the government increases presidential payment by 140%," said Socialist Party legislator Aurélie Filippetti before parliament. "Aren't there greater injustices to be addressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy Moves to Boost His Salary | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...President's reformist hypocrisy: clarifying and normalizing governmental pay scales by lifting them, while harmonizing public and private sector pension plans by scaling those downward. "There's a feeling the political class is helping itself while the French people are left on the sidewalk to fend for themselves," lamented Socialist legislator Arnaud Montebourg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy Moves to Boost His Salary | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...President Bush invited the relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents to the State Department for his first policy speech on Cuba in four years. But any expectation of a major policy shift was dissipated after listening to the President. Bush simply gussied up some of the same old bromides - "The socialist paradise is a tropical gulag" - that have marked U.S.-Cuban relations for decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Up the Hard Line on Cuba | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...with private enterprise in the mind. There was a poll in which the Chinese [came out as] far more in favor of free trade than the French. So here they are, in a socialist type of organization, but they are more business-oriented than several countries in Europe today. And you feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Bernard Arnault | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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