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...wonder his fellow economists and some politicians have suddenly started to question the emperor of the economy. "You know, we're told to get productivity up. We get productivity up," said an exasperated Senator Paul Sarbanes. "The inflation prediction is very good. And yet the Fed is moving to tighten money to slow down the economy." Yes, it is, Senator...
...appreciate how crazy loyalty can get, recall Shoichi Yokoi, the World War II Japanese soldier who hid in the jungles of Guam for 27 years rather than surrender to U.S. forces. He had declared fidelity to Emperor Hirohito and had evidently meant...
...serious listening, not just aural wallpaper for wine-and-cheese parties. A piano prodigy and student of classical Eastern music, Sakamoto had a brief fling as a Japanese rock star in the 1980s and dabbled in jazz before turning to Hollywood (where his sublime score for The Last Emperor brought him an Oscar). Like all his work, BTTB ("Back to the Basics") searches for common ground in classical, pop and Eastern music. More often than not in this CD of unaccustomed beauty, he finds...
...course, to say that violent movies cannot be good ones. But good violent movies win over the viewer by matching the visceral intensity of head-hacking with solid emotional substance. Unlike Ying Zheng, who exacts a bloody toll of thousands and still succeeds in fulfilling his ambition, The Emperor and The Assassin exacts its toll--without, sadly, achieving similar greatness...
...central motivations of most of the other characters, with the notable exception of Aaron the Moor (Harry Lennix), are more obvious. Tamora is (and is repeatedly represented as) a lioness, bestial in her pursuit of pleasure and fiercely protective of her young. Saturnius, the young emperor foppishly and petulantly embodied by the fine stage actor Alan Cumming, simply seeks to protect his authority and to be loved. Tamora's two younger sons (Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Matthew Rhys) are simply bored and callous, devoted to violence and provocation out of sheer idiocy and for want of a better option...