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...with the Gang of Four, the political radicals headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, who are still being reviled in the Chinese press because they reduced the national economy to "semianarchy" and "rode roughshod over the people, drank their blood and ate their flesh." Soon after the Gang of Four was arrested last year, Chuang, now 36, was kicked out of his job as Minister of Physical Culture and Sports. Reduced to sweeping Peking's streets and publicly denounced-one accusation was that he "persisted in wearing a Swiss-made watch," a sure...
...final work was Lorenzo Monreal's version of Carmina Burana. A series of sketches accompanied by Carl Orff's lusty medieval songs, the work is a luxuriant celebration of the pleasures of the flesh. Accordingly, every element in this production was pushed to abnormally heightened intensity. With the placement of the accompanying Harvard-Radcliffe choruses along the walls of the theater, the sound engulfed the audience from all sides, rather than just from the orchestra pit. And the visual scene was intensified by the moving colored lights and the looming shadows of the dancers projected onto a backdrop...
...seller newspaper, and its writers, it seems, may be forced by time and iron gloves to revert to cheap tactics to maintain the largest circulation in the country. But when Hamill sits down to write a novel, we might hope that he could revise his relationship with the typewriter. Flesh and Blood, Hamill's latest novel, however, exposes Hamill either in a spell of extreme laziness or an inability, after so many years of banging out copy under deadline, to write thoughtful prose...
...Flesh and Blood begins like another version of Rocky. The tale of his protagonist, Bobby Fallon, does not blossom into a sweet romance with a girl who becomes very beautiful when she takes off those big glasses of hers. Rather, Fallon falls in love with his mother to set the stage for an incestuous relationship that reveals nothing but perversity, lacking in any sort of meaning, and leaving the book without much purpose or plot...
Hamill's news column is inconsistent in quality. When a writer shows his talents on only a few occasions, connected by periods of turning out nothing but trash, he should think about cutting back output, or staying away from meaty issues. Hamill must have written Flesh and Blood to be devoured and easily digested. His die-hard New York fans will no doubt eat up the sex and violence, in spite of the nutritional void