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Ionesco and Genet write for themselves. Almost incidentally they find an audience in the small intellectual cadre capable of identifying with their plights, and the bewildered, fashionable throng that will never challenge either the playwright's meaning or the Emperor's new clothes...
...year 1297, a Chinese official named Chou Ta-kuan was sent by his emperor on a reporting mission to the kingdom of Khmer, in the land that is now Cambodia. The Cambodians, he quickly decided, "are not what we would call civilized people." The women were depraved and old before their time; the marketplaces were filled with homosexuals; and bathing in the nude was something of a national obsession-an obsession, Chou Ta-kuan was sure, that accounted for the high rate of dysentery and leprosy. Chou Ta-kuan could find almost nothing good to say about the Cambodians...
...Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swineherd from western Spain, captured the Inca emperor by trickery, and had him strangled. Within a decade the bridges were tumbled, irrigation systems shattered, imperial warehouses emptied; the enormous llama herds that provided meat and clothing were scattered and slaughtered. The conquistadors cut the richer lands of the Andean foothills into immense haciendas worked by Indian peasants held virtually as slaves. Today, while Peru exports cotton, sugar, silver and copper, it must import food to maintain even a marginal existence for the bulk of its 10 million people. Half the population is illiterate; undernourished children...
Blood and Roses. Filmed at the Emperor Hadrian's villa outside Rome under the direction of Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), this eerie tale of a lady vampire is the most subtle, careful and beautiful of the current crop of chillers...
Blood and Roses. Filmed at the Emperor Hadrian's villa outside Rome under the direction of Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), this eerie tale of a lady vampire is the most subtle, careful and beautiful of the current crop of chillers. With Mel Ferrer...