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...friends born on the same day in 1900 to trace the major social and political upheavals of 50 years of Italian life (a better English rendering of the title, Novecento, might be Twentieth Century). Bertolucci's bias is frankly Marxist. His scenario, set in the rural Po valley, celebrates the rise of the Communist movement among the peasants and its ordeal under decadent landowners and brutal Fascists. Is this waving of the Red flag the real reason for the movie's rejection? Nobody will say so outright, but it is no secret that privately some Paramount executives...
...other persons were tried and sentenced to jail terms of from two to eight years for having issued a "Declaration for the Restoration of Democracy" at an ecumenical mass in Seoul's Roman Catholic Cathedral on March 1, 1976. their fellow prisoners include former President Yun Po Sun; former Foreign Minister Chyung Yil Hyung; his wife, Lee Tai Young, the first woman lawyer in South Korea; and some of the most prominent Catholic and Protestant churchmen in Korea...
...sonnet - surreptitiously." Two years later he writes his future wife: "It is such an odd thing that bright boys should be expect ed to be successful men . . . Brightness disillusions." So the bright boy becomes the plodder, then the secret craftsman who will not publish his first book of po etry until the age of 44. The material world gains in importance and the rare leisure hours are steeped in philosophy. The demise of Stevens' mother is a pre sentiment of Sunday Morning. "Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,/ With in whose burning bosom we devise/ Our earthly mothers...
...Chang Po-jung, deputy head of the group, said yesterday that before the revolution China's only observatory was at Purple Mountain in Nanking, with a total of ten staff members...
Grizzled Veterans. With Hua on the viewing stand were the country's other leaders: the top army commanders and the entire membership of the Politburo (except the ailing Liu Po-ch'eng). The four purged radicals-Chiang Ch'ing, Chang Ch'un-ch'iao, Wang Hung-wen and Yao Wen-yuan-had simply been dropped from the Politburo and not replaced, thus reducing the membership of the party's decision-making elite from 16 to twelve. Sinologists believe that three grizzled, durable veterans of Mao Tse-tung's Long March who had long...