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...with CBS News in Hong Kong: "I spent the past three years as a China watcher, so I had some idea of how the official Communist mind works." Kalb was not prepared, however, for the major role that religion plays in Poland. "Here is 1,000 years of almost unbroken living tradition," he says. "It is easy to see how the church, with its music and ritual, could have become such a powerful attraction for the Poles." Wynn and Kalb also found it easy to see why Pope John Paul II has become such a powerful attraction for journalists. Says...
Although there are some 900 ski touring centers with specially groomed and graded trails, such amenities remain optional. Cross-country skiing can still conjure up the image of solitary figures etching fine lines in unbroken snow. Tim Murphy, a poet from Minneapolis, sees the sport as "a chance, if you seek out the right places, to completely shuck civilization and enjoy the pristine beauty of the snow and cold...
...These were notable for their rousing music-America the Beautiful and She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain were favorites-and leisurely pace. For the same type of sequence that an American network packs into 60 to 90 seconds, the Chinese frequently used more than five minutes, unbroken by commercials. Teng's diplomatic activities, his excursions to a Ford Motor plant outside Atlanta and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston, plus all social gatherings were presented in loving detail...
...would be sufficiently mobile to make Dern a great stage actor, but Yellen's writing, for all its superficial energy, never allows him to take off. Yellen's Sinclair Lewis is so completely within Dern's range that apart from the physical demands of stage acting--the need for unbroken concentration, projection, etc.--this could be almost a vacation...
...states. In Utah, restaurants can only provide setups. A customer can either bring his own bottle or he can buy his liquor from a state-licensed bar at the establishment; the law says the customer must walk up to the bar himself and buy his booze in bottles with unbroken seals, which usually means he walks back to his companions juggling an armload of miniatures...