Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fang Yi and his colleagues have set difficult goals for a country that still relies heavily on human sweat. In the cities, women sweep the streets with brooms they make out of straw. In the countryside, road crews work with pick and shovel; when steamrollers are available, they are usually fuming, coal-burning monsters. Despite the vaunted Chinese emphasis on the dignity of the masses, produce is still conveyed by pedal-powered carts carrying burdens several times heavier than their human engines...
...exact cost for renting the train is still undetermined, but the assembly will not try to make a profit on it, he added...
...roles, desperately mugging and overacting to compensate for the script--and maybe a little resentful, a little angry with himself for getting involved in all this. Actually, it's a lot like watching Olivier host Saturday Night Live. Worse, Borowitz and his court set to cutting scenes for length (still leaving a two hour leviathan, without intermission) they cut a few of Clemenson's funnier sketches, including an exuberant parody of Harry Reasoner. The show suffers...
Section 80 never changes much. This year, like last year and the one before, the kid with the ankle weights showed up. He can palm the ball now, and his goofy smile is a little more abashed; but he still wears the ratty junior high basketball jacket. The old guy, who once reffed college ball and now depends on the bottle in his paper bag, was there too--and the brothers from Roslindale who help run the union during...
...have mixed emotions about a game like this," Dick Sr. said after the game. "You have to root for your son, but I still get a funny feeling. I would listen to the Harvard band play and get goose pimples all over...