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...most objective study so far of the political storms that swept across China in 1989, "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" has drawn fire both from both the Tiananmen Square dissidents (who say it discredits the movement) and the Chinese government, notes reviewer Emily Mitchell. In three hours of interviews, television news coverage of the protest and archival footage, the movie re-examines those seven weeks when the student discontent of April grew into a mass movement that culminated in the June 3 carnage when the military ended the protests. Television in the West promoted a simplified view of a unified...
...Passion and Punishment," for which she won $100 in a contest, begins briskly: "To and fro, like a wild creature in its cage, paced that handsome woman, with bent head, locked hands, and restless steps. Some mental storm, swift and sudden as a tempest of the tropics, had swept over her and left its marks behind...
...were living in separate worlds on the subject of O.J. His trial has generated two utterly opposed views of who is guilty: Simpson for murder, or the Los Angeles police for tainting the evidence against him. That both views might be true is a possibility that threatened to get swept away by the emotions stirred up by the trial...
...Kansas City Royals, who were still in contention for the A.L.'s fourth spot, fell to the Minnesota Twins in the 12th inning on Sept. 20, fewer than 1,000 fans remained in Royals Stadium. Most distressing for baseball, though, was the pathetic support given the Yankees as they swept a four-game series from the still world-champion Toronto Blue Jays last week: 69,303 in aggregate attendance, or an average of 17,326 a game. Granted, owner George Steinbrenner does everything he can to knock the Bronx and nothing to promote the Bombers, but the weather was glorious...
...especially bad--in drugs, casual sex, violence, idiot music, stupidity, driving 90 m.p.h., bad manners, rage--the more you lose. The more you abstain, the more you gain. This is not cheap rhyming paradox but a good truth that in the past generation or two has been swept away by raw sewage. For an adolescent, abstinence means security and, therefore, the freedom that comes with self-possession. Abstinence becomes a medium of clarity, the window through which it is easier to recognize, among many things, one's work and one's mate...