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...Sonatine (1991), Kitano Man had matured, or wizened, into its now-familiar form: the gang-war veteran who can be impressed or surprised by nothing. He doesn't act out of an awesome rage, like a Pacino or DeNiro hero. He isn't exorcising personal demons, channeling anger against, say, his uncaring parents, or giving an unjust society the dynamite stick up the butt that it deserves. Freud and Lenin are not on his bookshelves. Kitano Man is just doing what he's supposed to?what he, the killing machine, is designed for. A gangster's life, like...
...shows from this clique of fans. Now, like a Japanese trading company or the yakuza, the Takeshi Gundan has become hierarchical, with a seniority system and top-down management style. "Instead of guns, we use laughter as our weapons," says Suidobashi, who has patterned his life after his hero. A shy young man, he was attracted to Beat's boldness. "He speaks his own language and decides what to do by himself," Suidobashi explains...
Colin Powell may be a hero, but he doesn't bake cookies for foreign leaders like Madeline Albright. He's also not pen pals with Kim Il Jung. Paul O'Neill is no Lloyd Bentsen, or Bob Rubin either. John Ashcroft may hold the perfect beliefs of an Attorney General from 125 years ago, but he will never welcome us to Janet Reno's Dance Party and tell us to "Stop moshing!" In fact, Ashcroft is so conservative that he refused to dance at his own gubernatorial inaugural ball in Missouri. Labor Secretary Chao can see over a podium. Clinton...
...make an interesting political career out of having a bright side and a dark side. It was said that the bright prince, John Kennedy, was Clinton's hero. Clinton is also the dark prince, Richard Nixon. Kennedy died and stayed dead. Nixon was the real Comeback Kid. Add a touch of Lyndon Johnson to Clinton's character - not the tragic, Lear-like LBJ, but the shrewd cornpone conniver, the genius politician - and finish the picture off with a quantity of Flem Snopes. There you have him, the Kingfish from Hot Springs, as gaudy and complicated as Americans...
Jordana R. Lewis '02, a returning Crimson columnist, is editorial chair of The Crimson. She has just returned from an exhilarating winter break skiing and Sundancing in Park City, Utah. Jordana is a history and literature concentrator in Eliot House. Her favorite color is blue and her hero is Henry Kissinger '50. Her column will be appearing on alternate Thursdays. One of these statements is not true...