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...made a possibly telling slip by announcing: "We welcome Dr. Kissinger." Startled for a moment, Schlesinger smiled and replied, "He isn't here." It soon became clear, however, that Schlesinger's high-level hosts knew their Washington Who's Who. In Peking, Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying and Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua expressed their scorn for the Secretary of State. They denounced Soviet-U.S. detente as "appeasement" caused by a "Munich mentality." Calling for greater U.S. vigilance in the face of the Soviet military buildup, Ch'iao cited a Russian proverb: "When...
...conflict is genuinely ideological and involves such issues as educational policy, technology and the need for political indoctrination. But increasingly it has become a naked struggle for power. China has a severe generation gap. Most of the leading moderates, such as Li Hsien-nien and Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying, are venerable party bureaucrats. The radicals, by and large, are young cadres who made personal power gains during the Cultural Revolution-gains that are now threatened by the rehabilitation of Chou's old guard. Says one U.S. analyst: "There were a lot of young people with lousy educations...
...Rodriguez, are beautifully distinct and salvage a few scenes; without the gaudy accoutrements of their offices, the court characters would be a homogenous disaster. The tech as a whole bypasses the usual primitive motifs seen in The Blacks and opts instead for the decadent absurdity of modern western taste. Ying Wu's lighting should have been considerably bolder in order to emphasize the unreal theatricality of the setting...
...find a respectably feminine substitute for the male picaresque tradition. The mysterious creaking castles kept her 18th century maidens properly indoors, while providing them with all the alarms and excursions that Smollett's rogues enjoyed. Moer's discussion of Jane Austen and George Eliot as the ying and yang of British class-consciousness is brilliant...
Philip Haas has divided the acting space into several areas to reduce the separation between cast and audience, placing extra demands on the lighting. Unfortunately, Ying Wu's design is not equal to the task. Faces are often obscured in blue shadow because the lights are not properly set and balanced...