Word: nihilisme
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That strategy was foreshadowed by the multiple attacks on Iraqi Shi'ites a few weeks ago. The terrorists hoped to set off civil war among the Shi'ites, Kurds and Sunnis. The good news is that the Shi'ites did not choose to launch a spasm of counterviolence but instead...
When the average Japanese salaryman heads home each evening, you can bet the last song he wants to hear from his car radio or earphones is his company's anthem, or shaka, the corporate tune that employees are forced to sing at year-end parties and sometimes even during morning...
When he's not making sugary chinese New Year trifles with Andy Lau, overemployed Hong Kong director Johnnie To prefers life on the city's cinematic mean streets. His 1999 film The Mission was a highlight of the low-life genre, a noirish masterpiece that lionized criminals and their ritualized...
The images range from the violent to the surreal, many borrowed from photographs in South African newspapers. These appear in stark contrast to the fluidity of the drawing style. The films are accompanied by carefully selected music, ranging from Duke Ellington to Dvorak. The overall formal effect mirrors Kentridgeâ?...
AILING. KINJI FUKASAKU, 72, Japanese director whose 2000 hit Battle Royale, about a group of schoolchildren forced to fight each other to the death on a deserted island, turned heads with its macabre mix of nihilism and whimsy; with cancer; in Tokyo. Fukasaku, who co-directed the 1970 Pearl Harbor...