Word: impressionability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The consummate moment, in an almost perfectly controlled film, is the last sequence, the death of Balthazar. While being used to smuggle goods out of the town, he is deserted and accidentally shot. Slowly bleeding to death, he walks to the middle of a field, lays down and silently dies...
The Army's Uncle Sam no longer waves a bony finger from recruiting posters announcing 1 WANT YOU. Now youths of varied backgrounds, including cowboys and football players, appear with a new slogan: TODAY'S ARMY WANTS TO JOIN YOU. The prime-time TV spots show hay dropping...
As the Americans learned, table tennis has a ritual all its own in China. First, the two teams marched onto the floor and intertwined hands, then they marched off again. But where were the tables? Suddenly, 50 or so Chinese men, women and children dressed in red jump suits danced...
AT first it was like being on another planet," said Saar after he returned to Hong Kong. "For at least two days, no one was quite sure what he was seeing, and then gradually things began to fall into place and we began to see a society and a nation...
The American visitors learned that one of the current popular campaigns in China is emulation of Mao's long march, and columns of children set off into the countryside in the mornings. "Also part of the scene," says Saar, "is the sound of whistles and the shouting of time...