Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Phillips says the book's tone differs markedly from what he'd originally intended. When he conceived of the two characters, it seemed obvious to him which would emerge as the more sympathetic. Emily, filled with the racist and imperialist nations of her nation and era, was to be "okay, but, you know, a bit of a dick head at the end of the day;" Cambridge's final section would respond with a triumphant, militant condemnation of her arrogance, "kind of 'oh me, oh my, what a terrible institution this is, how dare they?;'" Phillips says...
...craves it. But Phillips refrains from easing the tension of the narrative, instead depicting two characters much more ambiguous in their views on race, slavery and one another. In the book's final version, Emily's bigotry is accompanied by doubt and fear; and Cambridge is not the anti-imperialist freedom fighter we expect, but a complicated man who resents not only his own enslavement, but also being forced to live among the "heathens" who are his fellow slaves...
...name is Achmed," read the article. "While fighting against the Zionist state, my commanding officer approached me and asked me to drive a truck full of explosives into a barracks full of imperialist United States forces. But I did not know how to drive stick. My brother Harouk took the mission, but I would have gladly died for the struggle...
Annaud at first seems an odd choice for director. The variety of landscapes and eras in his Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose and The Bear suggests he is less an auteur than an explorer. And one with an imperialist bent: he pumps this intimate memoir into a David Lean-size epic. But once Annaud locks his movie in the dark bedroom, he finds metaphors of gesture for convulsive passions; he creates cliff-hanging drama from each shift of the girl's whim...
...nuclear-armed nations. In the Crimean capital of Simferopol, ethnic Russians gather daily outside the local parliament building to accuse Ukrainian leaders of disregard for their right to self-determination. In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, 400 miles away, thousands have converged in recent weeks to protest Moscow's "imperialist" designs on the Crimea, which is part of Ukraine but has a Russian majority. "Until we have independence, the Crimea will always be a vassal of Kiev," says Antonina Alekseyeva, a pro- Russian demonstrator in Simferopol. "All lies," retorts Nikolai Filipovich, an ethnic Ukrainian standing a few steps away...