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...cult and dictatorial system fostered by Mao. In 1980 he replaced the autocratic position of party chairman with an eleven-man secretariat. In an even bolder move, he gave the spotlight position of General Secretary not to himself but to Hu Yaobang, 70, a former chief of the Communist Youth League and his occasional bridge partner. Since then, Deng has chosen to operate largely behind the scenes, stressing that the reform program is not his work but that of the party. He has thus allowed his two deputies, General Secretary Hu and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 66, to establish themselves...
...fact Theresa Russell's pouty, luscious incarnation of the blonde bombshell is about the only reason to stay with this film after the novelty of its first half hour wears off. As Marilyn in her pre-platinum youth, Russell looks more like Kathleen Turner than Norma Jean Baker, but what's a little makeup among sex symbols? Besides, she so dominates her every onscreen moment that it's difficult not to chastise the superhumanly chaste Einstein for declining her offer of a roll...
Dixon got involved with PBH her freshman year when she took a work-study job as a counselor for the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program. In the same year, she marched in front of the office of Dean of Freshmen Henry C. Moses, calling for the reinstatement of minority organization events on the Freshman Week calandar...
White interviewed crime victims' relatives, police officers and academics in New York and other Eastern cities. In Chicago, Correspondent Don Winbush reported from neighborhoods afflicted by youth-gang violence. He observes, "All around me were decent, hardworking, caring, strong-willed people. How could senseless, callous acts of violence erupt so frequently...
Miami Vice is the most intensely serious cop show on TV. The drug smugglers, mob bosses, psychotic youth gangs and smut peddlers who emerge from the underworld each week are the most vividly portrayed evildoers on TV since Eliot Ness squared off against Frank Nitti on The Untouchables. Even more striking, however, is the show's depiction of the temptation that evil presents to basically good men. It is no accident that Crockett and Tubbs frequently go undercover, and seem to blend in perfectly when they do. Moreover, the show's most powerful episodes deal with law-enforcement officials...