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...longer. Shenzhen (the new spelling under the Pinyin system) is now a vast building site. Construction crews stir dust as they dig sewers, build roads and prepare foundations for factories and apartment buildings. Local women wearing skintight jeans made in Hong Kong sell U.S. and British cigarettes and cans of Coca-Cola from roadside stalls. Hackies hustle bewildered visitors, demanding as much as $65 an hour for riding in their dilapidated Japanese-made taxis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bold Experiment | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

MARRIED. Richard Pryor, 40, actor-comedian (Bustin' Loose, Stir Crazy), who only 15 months ago nearly perished in a fire; and Jennifer Lee, 29, songwriter and actress (The Sunshine Boys); he for the sixth time, she for the first; in Maui, Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...Jeep and horse about his 688 craggy acres in the Santa Ynez Mountains, his Rancho del Cielo, 2,200 ft. into the cielo, splitting firewood, clearing brush, ogling stars. A pleasant image for the public to dwell on, but it also raises some questions and a bit of a stir: Is so long a holiday fitting and proper for a President, the leader of the free world? Can Washington survive without being the center of Government for so long a stretch? Is there life without news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahhhhhh Wilderness! | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

Your article "For $11 Mil, Xanadu with a Rolls" [July 21] may stir the envy of some of your readers. But it will also stimulate many more of them to ask: Is this kind of luxury desirable in a nation that cannot afford to provide Social Security, food stamps, decent housing and education for millions of its people who are in need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 17, 1981 | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...harpist and flutist play pastoral music while a military aide announces each guest to the press pool. Actors Robert Stack and Roger Moore stir the cameras and pencils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Could Have Danced All Night | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

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