Word: highness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul McCracken, the President's chief economic adviser. They will urge their Japanese counterparts to start removing import quotas on 120 products, and move faster in approving requests from U.S. companies that want to set up joint ventures in Japan to build cars, electronic components and other high-technology products. Relations between the U.S. and Japan are becoming steadily closer-and closeness creates friction...
...industrial might has brought not affluence but effluence. Photos taken from Apollo 9 showed thicker smog over the Tokyo Bay area than over Los Angeles, and beaches are badly polluted. The government is moving to relieve some of these ills, but has had little success coping with high prices, which are caused partly by the consensus system. In Japan, no manufacturer sells directly to a retailer. Tradition decrees that every product pass down a long line of wholesalers, mostly very small, each of whom takes a cut that adds to the price...
...consensus, and they are becoming restless. Workers strike for giant wage increases-an average 15% this year-that aggravate inflation. Labor unrest is an ominous sign of discontent, for workers have also had their guaranteed place in the semifeudal industrial system. When a youngster fresh out of high school signs on with a company, both parties understand that he will stay on until retirement...
...stronger and clearer as his life changes. Finally he is forced to play a clown in his home town while Dietrich backstage messes with a young actor. The ringmaster steps on stage, but Jannings refuses to come from behind the gauze curtain which partly obscures him. Sternberg cuts to high-angle shots of the rowdy audience, instead of stage-level shots which would show Jannings on the same moral plane, and then as Jannings on the same moral plane, and then as Jannings comes on stage to a terrifying long shot of the stage, rectangle of light, surrounded...
...Jannings is forced to crow, we see Dietrich watching him, for the first time in close-up. As she sees his humiliation her cynicism takes on a new depth echoed in the final images of her singing. Jannings charges offstage to kill her; her flight is shot in high-angle, expressing the degree of freedom in even Jannings' most desperate action. Indeed, Sternberg cuts away to a doorway rather than showing Jannings being strait-jacketed. Later released, he returns to his old school desk to die the death of all Expressionist heroes. But Sternberg ends the film with shots...