Word: archaicism
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...recent months, Miralles has led a campaign to streamline Spain's archaic and cumbersome judicial system, which has no fewer than eight kinds of courts. Among these are military tribunals and "public order" courts run by political functionaries who have almost unlimited power. Under the law of public order, for instance, a man can be sentenced to a long jail term-with or without trial-merely for knowing a homosexual or a marijuana smoker...
...that the functionalist concerns of the Bauhaus are receding. Some emphasis has shifted to furniture as dream or fetish or ikon. Thus Gae Aulenti designs a variable bookcase/shelf/sleeping-platform unit that, glittering in vermilion fiber glass, resembles a Mayan sacrificial altar; while Sottsass's red ceramic vase has the archaic look of a ziggurat...
Management policy has been equally archaic. Railroads have rarely attempted to put an aggressive salesmanship effort behind their services, a trick that truckers were quick to learn. That failure goes far to explain the drop in the railroads' share of intercity freight traffic to 39% now from 56% in 1950. Some railroads also have paid out in dividends more than they earned in profits, a practice that did much to bring the Penn Central down...
Peckinpah portrays two women in the film, and they are so similar that it is impossible not to conclude that he is making a point about all women. The image he shows is a savage and archaic one: women are moral voids, empty places in the universe who function only as lightning rods to collect the violence of men. Dustin Hoffmann, a shy mathematician, seeks solitude in Cornwall with his wife, played by Susan George. The wife's sex appeal attracts a group of subhuman yokels, who lure the husband away from the house in order to rape the wife...
...bizarrely precise intersection of fantasy and brutal reality. In half a dozen Manhattan theaters one morning last week, projectors were unreeling the mustily violent world of The Godfather, the Mafia wars of 1945-55. While Paramount's actors did their impersonations of caporegimes and button men in supposedly archaic rites of murder, the bright black Cadillacs were nosing up to the curb outside Guide's funeral home in Brooklyn...