Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...term Ukiyo-e means "pictures of the floating world," or, with a tinge of Buddhist severity, "images of the world of illusion." Ukiyo-e, which embodied a shift away from the stony feudal pietas of Japan's ancestral samurai culture, have a style and a subject matter that could only have taken hold in a bustling, sophisticated city like 18th century Edo (later called Tokyo). In Edo, a new class of merchants and craftsmen had risen. Like any bunch of Sony executives whooping it up in an Akasaka nightclub, the members of this bourgeoisie took their pleasures as they...
...more unfortunate consequences of the continuation of hostilities in the Middle East is the blocked growth of progressive elements both in the Arab countries and in Israel. Feudal Arab governments like Jordan and Egypt have diverted their people's attention from social reforms needed at home by sounding clarion calls against Israeli expansion. And Israel, once envisioned as a progressive, pioneering experiment, has sacrificed some of its dreams to support a war economy...
...which Peking supports. Chou and Mao thus warned Pompidou of the extent of the Russian menace. "The danger of war still exists," insisted Chou during an evening banquet. The danger, he added, comes from "a small number of people in the world who ... dream the dreams of 18th century feudal emperors. Their doctrine or creed is: 'The world, it is I.'" For his part, Pompidou said that France was still committed to seeking detente with the U.S.S.R...
...large, the kings have little power at the national level, but their local influence survives. Venerated by their peoples, they serve as a logical and sometimes necessary intermediary between remote national governments and feudal-age tribesmen: they settle business dealings, land quarrels and even marital squabbles. Among the most notable of these royal remnants...
DILLINGER is the first feature directed by John Milius, a young screenwriter who is as well known for his self-publicizing as for his screenplays (Jeremiah Johnson, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean). Sounding in interviews like a combination feudal lord, Texas land baron and bawdyhouse piano player, Milius proclaims the glories of guns, the beauties of blood lust and the masculine honor of big money. Affectation like this makes good copy and, judging from Dillinger, bad movies. Instead of the brash and abrasive effort that might have been expected, Dillinger is slack and derivative. Its main inspiration...