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Word: specializations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smooch in privacy. Even the People's Liberation Army has got into the act. Knowing that . swank hotels are truly the country's most exotic tourist attractions, the P.L.A. is a co-owner of Beijing's poshest, the Palace, where two gold-colored Rolls-Royce Corniches are available for special guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...Chinese nursery schools display a mural of young, cherubic children riding a dragon. The dragon represents China; the well-fed kids symbolize a prosperous future. But outside a primary school in Kai Kong, a factory town in Guangdong province, the traditional mural is decidedly modern. There isn't anything special about the dragon, but the fat children are carrying cameras, videocassette recorders and boom boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...were promised escape but are being left behind. Imbued by the occupying forces with the American Dream, they are abandoned to a nightmare retribution. That harrowing image from the newsreel of the mind not only inspired London's biggest new musical but is actually re-created onstage. While special effects generally promote escapism rather than emotion, the scenes of the hasty and haphazardly callous U.S. retreat from Saigon reduced many in last week's opening-night audience to tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dream Turned Nightmare | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...trip was part of a five-week, 4,000-mile journey across China by special correspondent Kramer for this week's cover story. His reflections accompany our 27-page gallery of photographs from the new book A Day in the Life of China. Says Kramer: "I saw a great people whose lives could be so much better if their political system was less oppressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Oct 2 1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...living civilization, from a fleeting kiss in a Guangzhou restaurant to timeless landscapes in distant provinces to the beginning of the student protests against the government. TIME presents 27 pages of photographs from a forthcoming book that chronicles what turned out to be a portentous day. Following the portfolio, special correspondent Michael Kramer delves into the soul of post-Tiananmen China and wonders if, like captive birds, the Chinese can learn to fly and sing in their giant cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134 No. 14 OCTOBER 2, 1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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