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...face the enemy, but there is not half a single reason for a split." As if to make concrete the spirit of national unity and the rejection of factionalism, 13 high-ranking army officers purged during the Cultural Revolution were rehabilitated last month. The most important of them, Yang Chengwu and Yu Li-chin, were purged in 1968 for sending squads of soldiers to attack the Cultural Revolution headquarters and arresting members of the Cultural Revolutionary leadership...
...looks to help soften Trudeau's abrasive and sometimes arrogant image. "He's a beautiful guy, a very loving human being who has taught me a lot about loving," she told their audiences. "He's shy, modest and very, very kind." Between their Canadian yin-and-yang act, there were a few political handouts: Trudeau pledged that he would enact a low-income housing program with small down-payment mortgages; $500 in cash, tax free, from the government toward the purchase of a first house; guaranteed incomes for the disabled...
...best known in the scientific world for her experimental demonstration of a nuclear theory--the non-conservation of parity in beta decay--suggested by two Nobel prize-winners, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang...
...grave illness and a destined tragic end. Kim would drag herself as if on rickets to the bathroom mirror to examine her eyes. Her face looked glazed, her talk was high-wired, near frenzied with shame and self-doubt. And, not only for the sanpaku, but for the hair, yang of her body, therefore male and ugly, attributing the yangness to 22 years to meat-eating she stuck to the diet and clawed at the hair on her stomach. Macrobiotics had become self-hypnotic: Kimberly would purge herself of the poisons of a lifetime by starving her flesh...
...were moving away from the strict line-and-rectangle grid. Black-White Duet with Red, 1953 (see cut), loosens the bond. Instead of Mondrian's delicately balanced, off-center compositions, a kind of symmetry prevails: the skewed, hefty profiles of black and white fit together like a Yin-Yang symbol as revised by a locksmith. "I liked what Mondrian had discovered - the interchangeability of form and space," Smith recalls. "But I wanted to apply that to free form...