Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Canton... The large provincial teachers' college outside Canton witnessed serious student Red Guard clashes four years ago during the days of Cultural Revolution. Today every trace of those tumultuous years has been assiduously repaired. The lovely kilometer-square campus of spacious groves, fields and ponds is quiet, bucolic and rather sleepy. Appropriate to the gentle pastoral setting, it was the radical student faction which lost out in 1967. The army of Gen. Huang Yung-sheng, Lin Piao's closest associate, intervened province wide on the side of law-and-order and Party control...
...thriller," but nonetheless arresting in the social perspective it allows. Retelling the essentials of an actual case of heroin smuggling from France into New York. William Friedkin's film concentrates on the facts and mechanics of narcotics detective work, and the intense, long-term efforts of two cops to trace $32 million in heroin and to pinch the underworld business associates making the transaction...
...iron-hulled French steamship and sank. Crew members commandeered all but one of the lifeboats, and most of the 233 passengers, including the owner's wife and two children, drowned. Two years later the Collins Line's Pacific steamed into an ice field and disappeared without a trace. But nothing could alter the drive for more speed. A captain of the day expressed the view that the way to deal with fog was to steam as fast as possible, thus getting "sooner...
...stunning design, the deeply cut folds, strict as metal, building up a system of pyramids that finishes in the smooth, serene, Gothic arch of St. Anne's wimple. By the 16th century the church was commissioning more elaborately naturalistic works. There is still a trace of Gothic rigor in the sweeping cloak of its lindenwood Mary Magdalene, but in all other respects she is almost a portrait, down to the look of pleased anticipation on her broad face as she uncaps the flask to anoint Christ's feet...
...Dead, along with the Airplane and Quicksilver, beat the rhythms for Kesey, Brautigan and Co., those self-conscious saviors of the Western mind. Yet the music was always theirs alone, and through it all they maintained a musical identity distinct from the political stamp which eventually blotted out any trace of individuality among the so-called Volunteers of America...