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Despite political openings between China and America, despite the brief flowering of Maoist chic along Fifth Avenue in the early '70s, the art of the People's Republic of China has never been properly exhibited in an American museum. Doubtless there is some ideological reluctance. Though the cold war is formally over, not too many U.S. museum directors are ready to confront their more conservative trustees with large comic-strip gouaches bearing titles like Occupying the Ideological-Cultural Field in the Countryside and Workers Condemn the "Gang of Four...
...past year is any indication, aggressions on the field will cease long before announcers stop doing violence to language. When they do, ungrammatical sign makers will doubtless be hard at work. As they did in 1977, chain stores will offer "bargain's" and "giant sales" will not have a single giant to sell. Banks will still offer their tautological "free gifts." Perhaps the year's weirdest notice was spotted in a Toledo restaurant: "Shirts, socks and shoes must be worn to be served...
...become short-tempered, stare balefully at strangers and deliberately make mistakes when doing tricks with their trainers. Says he: "It's like a kid who slams the door, knowing that his mother will ask what's wrong and show him some sympathy." This watery form of anthropomania doubtless is an acquired trait, since in their natural habitat none of the mammals are aware of humans. Indeed, Trainer Tim Desmond suspects that his charges have come to love the roar of the crowds too much. With the park closed, he says, "I think they have become afraid that their...
...there in the gray, real world, the spies are doubtless still spying on one another, the professional assassins bumping each other off with depressing regularity. A little matter like détente is no reason for the espionage establishments of the world to change business habits that antedate the recent unpleasantness between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. What has dropped off since the cold war cooled down is public interest in these matters. To be sure, James Bond continues to prosper on the movie screen, but only by becoming more outrageously campy each time out. His antagonists have become totally...
Warns Péladeau: "If they try to do what we are doing, I will knock them out -no contest." Even if rivals do not try stooping to conquer, the publisher plans eventually to branch out in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles. The imitation Journals doubtless will have plenty of local confections on page...