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...unbearable Nevertheless a new prosperity is offering more economic security than Chinese have known in this century. Between the new hotels there are still the one room corrugated tin shacks, but an incredible number of these shacks have sprouted TV antennas. The children and ancient women still desperately peddle stale cigarettes and gum never seeming to sell any-but death by starvation is a rarity in Taiwan gone, but not forgotten...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee jr., | Title: 'Welcome to the Republic of China' | 1/9/1973 | See Source »

...spectators, and unlikely to appeal to those who believe that art and life interact best at a distance from one another. At least the psychodramas of body art connote a desperate involvement that is missing from the other, and colder, latitudes of conceptualism. If conceptual art represents pedagogy and stale metaphysics at the end of their tether, body art is the last rictus of Expressionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

Ziegler announced the departure of the five top Justice Department aides as an indication that the President "wants the second term to be one full of new ideas" and to "make sure that no one becomes stale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kleindienst to Stay in Cabinet; Five Top Aides Leave Posts | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...president and the attentive, affluent corporations. Touted as an "eye-catching and urgent, report," the book was written before the completion of research for Nader's Congress Project to make sure it would appear before the elections. This first publication of the Congress Project is a compendium of stale gossip, common knowledge and worn proposals. Although the premise for the report is that an informed citizenry will act, the glut of information may be an impediment rather than a spur to the reader...

Author: By Deborah A. Coleman, | Title: Who Runs Congress? | 11/17/1972 | See Source »

...Stale Is My Mate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1972 | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

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