Word: bourgeoise
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The recovery has been sped along by changes in the structure of industry. As Giscard d'Estaing put it, "We had an industry that was in the hands of an old establishment of bourgeois people, rather respectable, rather inefficient, reluctant to change. Since our entry into the Common Market...
Almost invariably, Radio Moscow saves its choicest epithets for Chairman Mao Tse-tung. One recent broadcast described his thought as "an unprincipled mixture of Utopian and egalitarian ideas of the peasants' uprising, Confucianism, anarchism, Trotskyism, chauvinism, Chinese feudalism, national bourgeois ideas and other ideas contrary to Marxist principles." Mao...
This Man Must Die. Claude Chabrol's most recent American-released film is perhaps not so tightly conceived as last year's La Femme Infidele -but it may also be this director's funniest thriller. As usual, the story deals with murder and the way murder changes complex human relationships...
MEMORIES of Underdevelopment tries to save itself by criticizing Hollywood narratives: they show the same sounds and actions over and over again "like a broken record," the same scenes of sexual play, the same sentimental notions. But Memories has been copied from the same record. There's no need to...
One of the film's most interesting undeveloped ideas is its description of underdevelopment as a condition which makes people unable to relate things, to sustain ideas and feelings. But that's the condition and the effect more of bourgeois culture than of underdevelopment, and that's the condition of...