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...Lord Elgin, son of the seigneur who took the marbles from the Parthenon. Rebuilt hi 1888 by the dotty Dowager Empress Tz'u Hsi, diverting funds allotted for naval construction, the imperial plaisanterie occupies 700 acres and attracts huge numbers of Chinese rubbernecks. And then there are the Ming Tombs and, a few hours away, the Great Wall. Otherwise the city is nondescript and marred by Stalinoid architecture...
...basic setting, Ming Cho Lee has designed a huge and handsome two-story ballroom, with lots of French doors, upper windows, chandeliers, and two small opposing balconies at the downstage end. From time to time other interiors are suggested by lowering backdrop tapestries in the middle or sliding in a kitchen table from the wings. For garden scenes some potted trees are rolled in, and the sea-coast scenes are played on a side apron. Thus, aided by David Segal's lighting, the impact of the designer's architecture can be lessened when desired...
...everyone will be so lucky as the Massachusetts schoolteacher who picked up a primitive watercolor for 35¢ at a church auction and sold it 35 years later for $22,000. Or the Philadelphia couple who 30 years ago bought a Ming vase for $400 and sold it for $260,000. But an increasing number of people are finding that collecting antiques (art, furniture and objects at least 100 years old) can be enormously rewarding, both aesthetically and financially...
...arrived. Rumors also claimed that Mao's marriage to Chiang Ch'ing was opposed by other party leaders who agreed to it only on condition that she stay out of politics.] Most of this was rubbish, malicious rumors possibly started by Mao's rival Wang Ming and his ilk. Nevertheless, she had something to say about...
...Imperial City walls had been removed to ease traffic along the great avenues, the leaders' residences were still beyond public view, as were their private lives. Chiang Ch'ing's and Mao's apartments, marked off by intricately carved and colorful pillars in the Ming style, were separate but connected...