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...radio hoping for a diversion from the soaring mercury. What he heard that day changed his life and the lives of every citizen in the most populous nation on earth. In urgent tones, a news reader announced that Mao Zedong was exhorting citizens to rise up and "bombard the headquarters" to rid the party of his rivals and enemies. That day the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, announced two months before, took hold...
...painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect and scientist. Yet if one is to judge by the self-advertising letter he sent to Sforza in Milan in 1481, he didn't rate his skills that way. Before anything else, he listed his strategic ingenuity: he could design portable bridges, drain moats, bombard strongholds, design and cast siege cannon, make fireproof ships, and so on and on. Not until item No. 10, the last on his list, did he get around to saying that in painting too he could "do everything possible as well as any other." There may have been a simple reason...
...could write a theoretical account of what we do and include it in our liner notes, bombard people with claims that ‘in seeking to amplify the object I’m participating in the Western philosophical tradition of searching for the ding an sich,’ but I don’t think it would make the beats any funkier or the song any better,” Daniel later reiterated...
...We’re in contact with the box office, and getting the hospitality ready,” Lee said. “We even have a preliminary progaram and posters ready, so as soon as the contract is finalized, we’re ready to bombard Harvard with publicity and make sure the word gets...
...musical artists in America today can rival the popularity of Britney Spears in Asia? Whereas American culture in Asia is seen as a force of modernization, it seems that Asian culture in America is limited to the realm of kitschy pop culture, like the Chinese characters and designs that bombard shoppers at Urban Outfitters. Cohen’s desire to demonstrate the growing Asian influence on America often leads to exaggeration...