Word: walling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lobbying pamphlet distributed by the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights quotes a March, 1987 Wall Street Journal survey which said 66 percent of U.S. chief executives would hesitate to promote a gay person to management-committee level...
...wall of one of the newest buildings in Wu's village is a saying widely heard during the Cultural Revolution two decades ago: PREPARE FOR WAR, PREPARE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS, SERVE THE PEOPLE. Wu makes no apologies. "Of course I know the slogan's origins," he says. "But there is nothing wrong with those words. We should use more of what Mao taught. His themes were self- reliance and sacrifice. I say to our leaders, more of that and less riding around in fancy cars...
Despite its vast gray Soviet-style tenements and the absence of the imposing wall that enclosed it for a thousand years, Beijing strikes me as China's prettiest and most livable large city. Staggered work shifts are common, and vehicles from outside the city are banned during the day. The avenues are broader, the streets are cleaner. There are even more trees...
...wife and two children live in a spare, two-room apartment of about 30 sq. yds. provided by his school. The bathroom is down the hall. In the smaller room the kids share a bed under a Michael Jackson poster. On the wall above the sink and the small stove are a calendar and a photo of the New York City skyline. "It's not much," says Bi, but the subsidized rent is only $4 a month...
Tonight when I check the bathroom wall, some four months after its whitewashing, there is a new slogan written there. "Let's not let anonymous be a woman anymore," it says...