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This perceived national mood, combined with the basic human fascination with myth, has prompted some of the most successful of the new pseudo-mythical, comic book adventure films. Star Wars bears similarities to several ancient myths, including the Arthurian legend (note the parallels between Luke Skywalker and Arthur, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Merlin, etc.) and it seemed only a matter of time until a major studio would turn to an original tale and package it as a suped-up blockbuster. Whatever the social or corporate logic behind its conception. Boorman has made Excalibur an exhilirating, hugely entertaining film...
PHILADELPHIA--Two old women are sitting under the clock at Wan-namakers department store. "I'm so proud of my son," one says. "He's a Congressman, you know...
...VICE PREMIER. "I myself have made revolution my whole life, and I am continuing to make revolution." So said Vice Premier Wan Li, 64, at the beginning of an hourlong meeting in Peking's Great Hall of the People. Wan, a tall, affable, silver-haired man, is widely regarded as the key official below Premier Zhao Ziyang in China's new government. Until early this year he was the governor of Anhui province in the eastern part of China; there, as in Premier Zhao's Sichuan, the new national economic policies were first tested. Wan was brought...
...party and government made some mistakes in leadership. Sometimes our plans were not completely in accordance with practice, and some ultra-leftist ideas appeared in our development." One major error was not encouraging the production of consumer goods, another was the misuse of workers' abilities. Says Wan: "We had manpower, but we did not stress the importance of science and technology. We did not pay enough attention to the role that the intellectuals could play. Because of these defects, the ministries had too much power and the local enterprises didn't have enough. We stressed egalitarianism...
Today, the old Maoist disapproval of material incentives has been replaced with its opposite-a recognition that the chance to get richer will make people work harder. Wan cites the way local farm communes no longer have to produce solely according to a state quota system but can decide for themselves what to grow to satisfy local market conditions. Says he: "They are in a better position to know what to plant-and they can become richer." Under the old system, factories produced according to fixed quotas and turned over virtually all of their profits to the state. Now about...