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Clearly, this is not yet a picture worthy of a major economic power, and China has far more grandiose goals. Looking beyond Mao's China, Chou En-lai vows that before the end of this century, the "modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense, science and technology" will put his...
This is a James Bond caper and, as in the previous eight, there are plenty of fancy gadgets. Two are worthy of special note. One is a car that converts into an airplane (a bit of a bore; flying autos have already shown up in Popular Mechanics). The other, also...
The opening program, however, should be taken with a grain of patience. In the next episode, freed from the obligation to pump out basic information, Bronowski is off to Jericho and an examination of agriculture as the basis for civilization. This is one of those undramatic notions whose miraculous qualities...
On his trip, Wall also disabused himself of his earlier belief that acupuncture's effects are derived from hypnosis. He decided instead that the Chinese have now developed a powerful combination of three classical techniques: relief of anxiety, suggestion and distraction. When necessary, they reinforce these with modern drugs...
20 min.), The Godfather, Part II is a worthy successor to its predecessor. Francis Coppola has made a richly detailed, intelligent film that uses overorganized crime as a metaphor to comment on the coldness and corruption of an overorganized modern world. -Richard Schickel