Word: handicraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shanghai is losing the battle to induce its discontented young people to return to $24-a-month stints in remote regions and is allowing them to apply for local jobs. So is Peking, which has reduced its unemployment by placing youths in appliance repair centers and handicraft workshops. Last month an editorial in the People's Daily urged party leaders to make even more of an effort to create jobs for unemployed youths. In Nanjing, 600 otherwise unemployable young people have been given jobs as hairdressers and bathhouse attendants. Shanghai last month tried to provide make-work for several...
Some of the most attractive handicraft objects are to be found at small stores off the tourist track: lacquered woven bamboo handbags, hand-painted nesting boxes in all shapes, ceramic poudriers that could be used as cigarette boxes, silken parasols, cloisonne bangles. Many of these eyecatching, easily stowed artifacts are sold in the U.S. for ten times the going price in China...
...taken at some place like Hamburger Hamlet, which is near by. "Lily's idea of a night on the town is to go to Hamburger Hamlet, have dinner and then go back home and work," says Richard, a Lily look-alike who makes furniture with friends in a handicraft shop. "You can go crazy at her house. The phone is ringing all the time, with writers or producers talking deals. Lily literally works around the clock. How she juggles everything, I couldn't tell you. It's a madhouse half the time...
...dare be. Recalls one: "Boyd wouldn't recognize anything short of an amputation." Equally tireless away from work, Boyd over the years has run a program in the Catskills for neighboring kids as well as his own five children and seven grandchildren. He also skis, bicycles and teaches handicraft and square dancing...
Movies used to portray Indians as grunting marauders. Now everything about them, from their history to their handicraft, has become topical, even chic. In recent films they have been treated-or mistreated-as the newest social problem (Journey Through Rosebud) or as symbolic Vietnamese (Soldier Blue). When the Legends Die is one of the rare movies that seem genuinely to express, even in a small way, the strangled rage and uncertainty of the modern Indian...