Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lurking bourgeois assumptions that give aid and comfort to the maintainers of the ruling order. In other words he exercises dialectically all unexamined values from his cinematic vocabulary. "Realistic" cinema becomes his most formidable enemy: metaphysical defender of "the ideology of real life." universalist, humanist justifier of the present politico-economic system, mystifier of the historical alternatives open to the oppressed. So when he presents an image of oppression in Wind From the East. with soldier and Indian simultaneously reading from books of conflicting ideology. Godard makes sure we don't take this as a literal statement or fiction about...
...lives of the people most directly and mobilizes them most effectively on the level of the daily quality of their lives, the level that determines their relations with other men and women. Where the contradictions are most obvious between the will of a people to survive and an exploitative politico-economic order-and today this means the Third World-the liberation struggles are most advanced. This is not to say that the most exploited are the most revolutionary; rather, those most conscious of their exploited condition are most capable of liberating themselves...
While the rest of us, whether PL or Young Republican or rising young politico or tired, liberal cynic, merely mirrored his games in our own distorting mirrors. We all had run the race, we all laid claim to the prize, while the killing in Indochina, immune to our debate over the meaning of "End the War." went irrevocably...
George E. Allen, lawyer, raconteur and poker-playing intimate of Presidents (F.D.R., Truman, Eisenhower), has made some money in the stock market over the years. Not, however, on any inside tips from his friends. His secret: Allen's Law of Politico-Market Cycles...
...Eternal Life. Webber and Rice fight the traditional characterization by being anti-traditional: they put Jesus (rather uncertainly) into the role of a mass-culture hero, make Judas a sort of cautious road-manager, cast Mary Magdalene as a groupie in love with Christ, and Simon Zelotes as a politico who wants to co-opt Christ into a revolution against the Roman occupation. The point of all this is to make it clear by analogy that Jesus was a man, a man who had worries and faults, who had to deal with the same problems all men have to deal...