Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreigners as barbarians has opened its gates to the outer world; 530,000 tourists visited the Middle Kingdom last year. So did thousands of capitalists dowsing for new markets and investments in this promising territory. Perhaps the two most startling pieces of symbolic revisionism: the Chinese are planning to construct a golf course on the outskirts of Peking, and have given Coca-Cola exclusive rights to sell in the People's Republic...
Serious and chronic food shortages are only the most visible failing of the avowedly Marxist regime that wrested control of Angola from the confusion of independence and civil war two years ago. A dogmatic and strongly centralized government was imposed by the MPLA in an attempt to construct a multiracial egalitarian society out of the rubble of four centuries of Portuguese rule. Now, after 37 months of trial and error in which almost every sector of the economy showed alarming declines, Neto is steering Angola toward a more practical course. But it is not easy...
...construct the kind of ice show he envisioned. Curry choreographed two numbers himself and invited eight choreographers from the dance world - Peter Martins, Twyla Tharp, Norman Maen, Kenneth MacMillan, Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, Donald Saddler, Douglas Norwick and Robert Cohan - to do the others. He would explain what a skater could technically do, and they proceeded from there, excited by the prospect of a fluidity and motion denied them on an ordinary dance floor. "John is showing that it's possible to do something on ice that's never been done before," is the enthusiastic comment of Bonnefous...
...THEORETICAL trappings of For Her Own Good are its most serious drawback. Unfortunately, for the easily discouraged reader, the hefty first chapter is hard going. An oversimplified Marxist interpretation of the industrial revolution accompanies broad generalizations about women before and after and allows the authors to construct a dichotomy of rationalist and romantic views of women. The romanticists idealize pre-industrial women who supposedly led full, productive lives. Although they were inferior in status to men, the argument goes, they worked so hard that they didn't have time to worry about it. The post-industrial romanticist maintains that women...
...Waltons"--self-congratulatory and insipid. Molly Bolt of Rubyfruit Jungle, Brown's previous book, came close. But in Six of One, Brown tackles a much more serious task. Rubyfruit Jungle was a sad-funny autobiographical sketch of a young lesbian growing up. Six of One is an attempt to construct a fictional feminist history of the 20th century in America, through the lives of women living in a small town in Maryland...