Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappeared in China. One Shanghai factory manager during last year's "rectification" campaign spent four hours of every working day in group political discussions. And every Chinese city dweller lives under the baleful eye of a "street committee," most often run by a self-important woman. Wives are encouraged to write posters drawing attention to their husbands' shortcomings-and do. With depressing frequency newspapers throughout China carry reports such as the following: "Young Wei Kuo-chu, a student at Shin Tung High School, Shanghai, is cited and congratulated for having denounced his father as a counter-revolutionary...
...living quarters." Meanwhile, the miners' wives and teen-age children have been put to work running 40 new "industrial enterprises," including a cement factory. Logical next step at Yangchuan (and already in operation in some Red Chinese factories) is the "Saturday-night system," under which a married woman worker lives in a factory dormitory, is alone with her husband only on the odd Saturday night when she has the use of a dormitory room all to herself...
...young cast attempts to filter the turgid dramatic tars so often found in Puccini's graceful "thread of smoke." as he called it. The result is a bright and bracing version, full of rarely realized charms. Soprano Moffo's Cio-Cio-San is vocally arresting, more woman than Japanese doll...
...beautiful outside, and he was beautiful inside. Rest well, my friend." Actress Loretta Young caused a stir in the chapel by arriving in Oriental makeup from a stint before TV cameras. Outside, there were loud cheers for Yul Brynner, Ty's replacement as Solomon. "Look at him," one woman shouted. "He's growing a beard. And him with his bald head...
...exwife, who had put on such a spectacular performance at the Italian burial of her good friend. Auto Racer Alfonso de Portago, made Hollywood headlines by staying away from the funeral at Debbie's request. If the crowd had any disappointment, it was that only one woman fainted...