Word: feudal
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...revelations rocking the Catholic Church. But with even prominent abbots involved in debauchery, there is often little the monk police can do. "They are well-intentioned," he says, "but some of the worst wrongdoers are more powerful than they are." Indeed, reformist monks are severely hampered by an insular, feudal clerical structure. "There's a lot of politics in the temple," says Sanitsuda...
...destroyed in Tokyo's 1923 earthquake. Others burned up in World War II firebombing. Since the movies were shot on inflammable nitrate stock, which disintegrates over time, many simply crumbled away. "There was no effort to save silent films in Japan since they were seen as representing the obsolete, feudal way of life," says Anderson...
...During these more feudal days, theaters sprang up throughout Japan, and people of all walks of life filed in to see what had caught the Prince Regent's eye. While Western audiences had their favorite silent-screen stars accompanied by music and intertitles, the Japanese stars were not on the screen?but on the stage in front of it. Benshi, or film narrators, had followings of their own; a big-name benshi could pack a house. Throughout the silent era, they mimicked the voices of different characters and provided plot narration to musical accompaniment, in a style familiar from Japan...
...popular hope is that the balance of power in Georgia has genuinely shifted to the parliament via the people. But perhaps a more realistic expectation is that Shevardnadze will prevail, as ever, jostled by feudal alliances, clans and political expediency as old as Georgia itself...
...taste of Eternal China, take a look at the Jinghai Temple today. Despite generations of official atheism and the wholesale destruction of temples and feudal beliefs, two dozen elderly women in floppy blouses and polyester pants cheerfully descend on the holy site, praying to Tianfei and the East Sea Dragon God. They shake their clasped hands in passionate devotion, bow their heads low before the celestial statues and burn copious quantities of incense. They pray that the sea won't turn on them, that their fishermen husbands won't be drowned, that their houses won't be wrecked by typhoons...