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WHICH BRINGS US to the present. Never in recent years has the future seemed so ruled by contingency. Malaise drifts back and forth across this country, past corrupt public officials, cars idling in long lines waiting for gasoline and disabled Vietnam veterans who need jobs and better medical care. A mean-spirited Nixon government has wiped out all sorts of poverty and teaching jobs. Put simply, there seems to be little ahead beyond more of the same. In response, students here and elsewhere are said to be burrowing back into their private lives: no one is interested in joining...
...gathering power into his own hands, Suharto temporarily resolved several of his political woes. His disbanding of the Aspri was a crowd-pleasing response to student protests that his aides were corrupt. But the villains of Suharto's wayang are not mere puppets. Each of the four wily generals is potentially a powerful political figure. They may now try to write a different scenario for the next Indonesian puppet show...
...Persian arts, previously the province of a tiny, cultivated elite, into a more widely based, commercially successful venture. He was a generous patron, who took a personal interest in the production of anything that added to the glory of his reign. Isfahan was so completely his creation that his corrupt successors did not significantly change the outward shape of his society. Yet their dissipation ate away at its heart. Isfahan's essential weakness was betrayed when the city fell to an illassorted Afghan army in 1722, bringing to an end an era that had always been too dazzling...
...movie says that devilish forces plague the world that can pick on the powerless and corrupt them unawares. The world is a conspiracy of sinister unknowns; it is out of joint, gone haywire, batty. The primacy of the exorcism plants confusion and doubt everywhere. People are slaughtercalves of the powerful and the powerful cannot be identified. Nothing can be known for sure, nothing can be taken on faith, for the devil travels in disguise. It's life as hallucination...
...ugliness of the world, but people's powerlessness in its face. There was an ongoing sense that the scene has gone out of control. If the world's not doomed (Mean Streets), it's irrational (Don't Look Now); if it's not confined (Papillon, American Graffiti), it's corrupt, inconvertibly so (Serpico, Day of the Dolphin, Paper Moon, etc). And--most apparent in this year of sidekicks and Kung Fu, women in the movies are less in evidence than ever...