Word: modelled
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...well over a decade, the Dazhai production brigade in China's Shanxi province was the object of nothing less than a cult. The small, 40-family work unit, whose herculean labors were said to have produced astounding grain yields on steep hills, was held up as a model for all of rural China. LEARN FROM DAZHAI was the slogan that covered walls and farm buildings from northeastern Heilongjiang province to Yunnan in the southwest...
...Chairman's heritage. The ideas propounded by Hua following his accession to power in 1976 are being discredited. His much publicized slogan, "Speed up socialist modernization," has been replaced by "Haste makes waste." Earlier goals set by Hua for rapid agricultural growth have been revised or abandoned. A model work brigade on a Shanxi commune that he had so zealously promoted has been exposed as having faked production figures (see following story...
...probably get flak for selling out," sighs Deborah Harry, the peroxided lead singer of Blondie. But given the mega-figure offer she got to model Murjani jeans, perhaps the iconoclastic fans of rock s new wave will understand why their darling became a tool of bourgeois fashion. Taping her second TV commercial for the hot-selling trousers, Blondie's blond took a philosophical view of her new ad venture. "I have been promoting the greatest American product, rock 'n' roll. Now," she explains, she is into "promoting another great American product, jeans." Into them very nicely. Never...
Titanic does have a little of what the Supreme Court called "redeeming social value," though probably less than Caligula. There are five minutes of long, sweeping camera shots that show the ship resurfacing--a cleverly constructed 65-foot model that captures all the detail but somehow doesn't make the ship appear as looming as it did in real life. Jameson should have spent a few minutes exploring the ship, poking his camera into the staterooms and galleries that were the pride of the White Star Line when the ship set sail from Southhampton...
Poland's Communist rulers wisely came to terms some time ago with the nation's fiercely independent and outspoken Catholic Church. They have also learned to live with an agricultural system that, unlike the Soviet model, leaves 75% of the country's farms in private hands. Last week, under pressure from a wave of peaceful but illegal strikes in factories across the country, Party Leader Edward Gierek seemed to be heading toward another ideological compromise: de facto recognition of an amorphous independent trade-union movement...