Word: locksteps
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...government bureaucracy. The hours are endless, and when they are over, he is often expected to go out and get drunk with clients. Weekends are for golf, again usually with clients. Back home, his wife takes full charge of the children and manages the money. This lockstep life is a foundation of Japan's economic supremacy, which is just beginning to show cracks...
Japan is experiencing social strains -- a generation gap, a progressive graying of the population, a growing refusal by women to accept their traditional roles -- that are profoundly disconcerting to a country that moves in orderly lockstep. The once docile public has become so discontented that in a government survey of 10,000 people, 44.3% said the country was going in the wrong direction; only 31.4% thought it was on the right course...
Another suspect side of family-values mongering: Why are so many conservatives, champions of individual freedom, so hell-bent on coercing people to march in lockstep? Why does the authoritarian impulse win out over the libertarian...
Marxism is dead. Communists are history. Right? Not in Mongolia, as it turns out. The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, which ruled the country for decades in lockstep with Moscow, won 70 of the 76 seats in the parliament, the Great People's Hural. Though 43% of the votes went to noncommunist candidates, a coalition of the three main opposition parties managed to take only four seats, since each contest was decided by simple majority...
...picture that Hollywood completely understands. In many ways it's a very traditional Hollywood movie, but he's given up nothing. That's why people are so astonished." It is, in a word, crypto-conventional, self-consciously including all the obligatory elements of commercial moviemaking -- stars, violence, unclothed women, lockstep plotting -- but messing with them. The really big stars parody themselves; the sex is not very sexy...