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China's wise leader Deng Xiaoping made a good impression on European readers like me. Mikhail Gorbachev should take lessons from Deng and also foster a market economy. It would help bring prosperity and a higher standard of living to the Soviet people. Western politicians should intensify their relations with this newly developing China. Carsten Jaeger Wiesbaden, West Germany Spy's Smile...
...faithful in each city work their own variations on a standard text. As the ruby lips in the film's opening credits give way to a wedding attended by normal, nerdy young Americans Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon), the audience in Coconut Grove, Fla., flings rice gaily in the air. When the young lovers get stranded in the rain, regulars in Denver douse the front rows with squirt bottles. When Brad and Janet see "a light over at the Frankenstein place," hundreds of lighters, flashlights and one small '50s table lamp illuminate the Eighth Street Playhouse...
Despite Peking's tough anticorruption campaign in recent months, cases have been few in which harsh justice actually has been meted out to Communist Party bigwigs, rather than to "common criminals." In a startling departure from this double standard, a Peking criminal court last week sentenced 23 government officials to as long as ten years in prison for crimes "involving bribery, fraud, illegal speculation and tax evasion." To make sure the Chinese public got the message, the sentencing hearing was broadcast on national television and the culprits were shown with their heads bowed and shaved. Most prominent among them...
People who work directly with teenagers agree. "We maintain this incredible double standard with teenagers about sex," says Alice Radosh, coordinator of pregnancy and parenting services in the New York City mayor's office. "If you're swept away by passion, then you didn't do anything wrong. But if you went on a date after taking the Pill or with a diaphragm, then you're bad. You were looking for sex, and that's not permitted...
...when their characters had been through the wringer or on a bender; even rebels like Brando, Dean and Clift were smooth cheeked. But when Clint Eastwood rode through those Italian westerns in the '60s, a meaner, more maverick kind of frontier hero was born, an amusingly amoral gunslinger whose standard equipment was a Colt Peacemaker, a cheroot, a sarape and a five-day stubble. In 1975 when Italian Designer Giorgio Armani started to show clothes that would turn menswear inside out, his models sported jackets of wrinkled linen and cheeks shadowed by whiskers. Says the designer in retrospect: "It evokes...