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...that the Chinese would stick to their specific demands-that the U.S. sever its relations with Taiwan, abrogate a 1954 defense treaty and remove its remaining 1,165 servicemen from the island. But Vance hoped that Peking's new rulers might stand still for U.S. retention of some sort of special role in the future of the island. Hua's statement seemed to make it plain that they would...
...that illuminate dark areas of our society." The producers persuaded McShane to tell her side of the story on camera. "My mother's been threatening to commit suicide for about 40 years," she explained. "It's a fantasy of hers." The lethal pills, she said, were a sort of "security" for her mother. As it happened, Mrs. Mott died of natural causes two weeks ago, ten days before the TV documentary went...
Viewers' reactions were mixed, perhaps because of the sort of reasoning used by the Times's Michael Ratcliffe: "Suicide, euthanasia, privacy and surveillance: rarely can there have been a broadcast in which so many time bombs of universal interest were ticking away The Independent Broadcasting Authority [Britain's commercial TV watchdog] would have been irresponsible if it had prevented The Case of Yolande McShane from being shown. In the public interest...
...promote a record - tours, disc-jockey interviews. But before each appearance, she tips off the cops, timing the call so that they arrive too late to catch Bobby but in plenty of time to allow for a colorful comic chase. Naturally, the public rallies to him as a sort of Robin Hood figure. The film offers a glancing insight into a curious phenomenon of our time, namely, when the law's remedies for injustice fail, celebrity can be a powerful defense for the few individuals lucky enough to command...
...account, Decca made an odd sort of Communist. She drummed up attendance to party rallies with flame-colored flyers that read: CHICKEN DINNERS LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE. FREE-FLOWING LIQUOR. 20 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 20. Whether investigating police brutality in Oakland in the '40s or leading a White Women's Delegation to Mississippi to appeal the case of convicted Rapist Willie McGee in 1951, Mitford the Marxist seemed to operate with a touch of what she called "high jinks." Missions might be missions, but why could they not also be "a thrilling adventure," or at least "a welcome...