Word: clear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brought a generation of cinematic geniuses like Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Federico Fellini to light, along with a diverse set of styles whose ambition and vision are still tremendously influential. But the future of filmmaking in Europe was not so bright, nor its future so clear, in the last days of the war. By 1945, the national film industries that hadn’t been hijacked for propaganda purposes had been destroyed, and with the continent on the precipice of an economic abyss, nothing seemed more unlikely than a European film renaissance. George C. Marshall and the plan...
...acceptance. How many mainstream hip-hop acts, let alone female hip-hop acts, have emerged over the last decade that have remained committed to bringing about positive social change? It’s a strange way to come about a point, I know, but Michelle Obama has made clear that women—arms and all—can be complex, capable, and still whole. This is a sentiment missing from current mainstream hip-hop, and one that could easily be echoed by its female artists. Blessed be the day when Beyoncé and Sasha Fierce...
...There, the powers must decide how to balance the market and the state intervention in many different cases. They will undoubtedly recognize that “economic nationalism” has always been under the surface of globalization, implement the good aspects of state intervention and protection, and steer clear of the others...
...Ozawa's analysis of what needs to be done is clear. There is, he recognizes, "no going back to the traditional system ... We have to incorporate free competition as well as the market mechanism into the lifelong-employment system." The key to success is to rely less on exports and more on domestic demand - a prescription that, a DPJ policy document says tartly, "has been on the table for the past 20 years." But Ozawa recognizes that to encourage the Japanese to shop rather than stash their cash in safety-deposit boxes, something more than exhortation is needed. "We have...
...that gets to the heart of it. The question is not simply whether someone who is as deeply steeped in Japanese political culture as Ozawa - who at times seems as motivated by replacing the LDP as he is by a clear analysis of where Japan should be headed - can be a sexy agent of change. It is whether Japan really wants to go through the wrenching transformation of its economy and society that the new century seems to demand...