Word: starke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians so harshly that Moscow's Ambassador to China stalked out without bothering to finish dessert. Teng was less irascible but equally blunt in warning the U.S. against the dangers of détente when President Ford visited China last December. "Rhetoric about détente cannot cover up the stark reality of the growing danger of war," he declared. Teng evidently relishes his new power. Shortly after his rehabilitation, visitors to China said he seemed a bit hesitant and unsure of himself. Now, say more recent visitors, he seems confident and very much in command...
...darts into the audience to record the listeners' rapt faces. Sven Nykvist's extraordinary lighting and framing pours new layers of fantasy onto the story--hands appear out of nowhere, portraits come alive, and airy scenes like Renaissance paintings dissolve into somber, feverish settings lit by stark, bluish fires. The film keeps the quality of a live performance because it's set in an eighteenth-century opera house rather than in a studio. The performance conditions of Mozart's day are faithfully reproduced, down to the wing-and-shutter sets and even the wheel-and-pulley flying contraptions which allowed...
...Angeles, Janis Stark, 26, a telephone installer, drags around 60 lbs. of equipment and says that "going up telephone poles was fearsome at first. Now it's second nature." Still less usual is the work of Evelyn Newell, 28; tired of her dead-end job as a railway clerk, she apprenticed as a fireman and attended a locomotive training school, becoming the first woman locomotive engineer in the U.S. With three years' experience, she now earns close to $25,000 annually. The support from the men on the job has been terrific, she says. "There are no conflicts...
...comes to 14.5 (8.3% unemployment + 6.2% inflation). That represents a drop from 1974's punishing year-end in dex of 16.6, but still marks a stark in crease from 1960, when...
...Stark Reality. At the welcoming banquet in the Great Hall of the People, the atmosphere turned briefly ominous. Teng in his toast sternly warned the Americans against being roundheeled with the Soviets on detente, which the Chinese regard as naive and a self-defeating attempt to appease imperialist Moscow. Mystifying the Americans, Teng summed up Peking's world outlook with a Maoist aphorism: "Our basic view is, there is great disorder under heaven, and the situation is excellent." Less inscrutably, he added: "Rhetoric about detente cannot cover up the stark reality of the growing danger of war." Ford...