Word: yeh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice does not match the face. Against the crescendos of two guitars, drums, and piano, Jobriath's voice is strong--Jagger-like in its harshness. "Wherever you are, ahoooooooooooooo." The guitarists, rocking along in giant ski-boot clogs, fill in the "yeh, yeh, yeh's." Jobriath gestures. The movements are familiar: mouth in a circle, eyes wide, the elbows cocked, the wrists limpid, the fingers splayed. The music rises in scintillating shimmers. Jobriath leaps backstage, and returns as a "Space Clown." Pink ruffled mask coyly over his eyes, pink satin G-string in place, Jobriath mimes juggling. He pirouettes gracefully...
...SECRETARIES AND SUBORDINATES. I do not approve of having one's own wife working as office manager of her husband's work unit. In Lin Piao's place, Yeh Chun [Lin's wife] is the office manager. His subordinates have to go through her to consult with him on any question. [Yeh and the subordinates have since been purged.] To do any real work you have to rely on yourself: move your own hands, see with your own eyes, mark documents in your own handwriting. Do not rely on secretaries! Do not let secretaries have...
Chinese newspapers hammered the restoration theme in a joint Army Day editorial last week, urging the faithful "to unite, to be open and above board." The star of the Defense Ministry's Army Day reception was Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, an old (74) hero from the days of the Long March whom Mao summoned out of semiretirement as the September crisis was approaching. Peking has let it be known that Yeh will soon be named Lin's successor as Defense Minister in an important first step toward filling out Mao's decimated government...
...wife Chiang Ching, who was the ideological power behind the radical Red Guard fanatics during the Cultural Revolution, turned up at Army Day ceremonies as No. 3 in the Politburo, after Mao and Chou. She may be jockeying for that position, however, with Yeh, who led a bloody provincial army suppression of Mme. Mao's Red Guards in 1967 and has developed no affection for radicals since...
...President observes. Following Nixon and his party as it sways through the hall seems a bizarre intrusion on the heavenly harmonies, but the building absorbs it all with splendid serenity. When the press and cameramen momentarily block the way, Nixon explains: "Our press is like an unorganized army." Replies Yeh: "But I think they have to work very hard...