Word: feudality
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...spring of Barbarosa's plot is an endless battle between the outlaw and a Mexican family he married into decades ago. There is a blood feud in The Challenge, too, as bloody as it is feudal. Two swords have been in an old Japanese family for six centuries. Now, in modern Kyoto, two brothers fight to the death for possession of those swords. Life, it would seem, is cheap in the mystic East, at least when an Occidental director like John Frankenheimer invades Japan to make a martial-arts movie. Glenn and Mifune invade the industrial fortress of Mifune...
...land reform program was started with two main objectives: 1) to end the feudal stranglehold that a few families held on the country's agricultural and economic wealth, and 2) to deprive the growing leftist insurgency of an opportunity to exploit the grievances of the peasantry. It was to be carried out in three phases...
...company's century-long rule has combined with the constant wind and rain to keep the Falklands in a state that a local Anglican priest has called "positively feudal." To some, this all seems a charming escape from the stresses and conflicts of the outside world. People born on the island proudly call themselves "kelpers," for the seaweed that grows thickly offshore. Visitors relish the fact that the milkman arrives at the door with his cow and then produces just enough milk to fill a bottle. Or that the big social event of the year is a week-long series...
...Milan collections, he incurred the wrath of the press but walked off with the honors anyway. "Armani is the king of the Italian Alps," says Geraldine Stutz, president of the modish New York City department store Henri Bendel. The assorted princesses, princelings and pretenders scattered about the feudal fashion kingdom of Milan sent their models gadding down runways in all the latest but did not succeed in dislodging the king. Gianni Versace, Armani's keenest competitor, took up the historical theme with a vengeance. He weighed in quite literally with some rarefied leather and chain-mail combos that looked...
Gurney uses the room as a kind of revolving door for life's large and little ironies. Through it troop generations of disparate families as well as a feudal array of maids much given to the response "Yes, Missus." In the first episode, a brother and sister who have inherited the house argue testily about which of them is to have the dining room. Subsequently, an architect advises a psychiatrist purchaser of the house to split the room up into his office and a reception area...