Word: raj
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Farokh Pandole (HARVARD) d. Jon Mao (Cornell), 15-12, 15-7, 15-6; 6. Jim Masland (HARVARD) d. Nick Bumstead (Cornell), 15-3, 15-5, 15-13; 7. Josh Horwitz (HARVARD) d. Mark Breuers (Cornell), 15-12, 15-9, 15-10; 8. Raj Mahidhara (HARVARD) d. Erik Gehring (Cornell), 15-10, 15-10, 15-6; 9. In Kim (Cornell) d. Bobby Greenhill (HARVARD...
...headed for a fancy hotel, a vestige of the Raj. And I would largely miss this side of the Indian city. Like most tourists, I would see the tourist sites--the great caves at Elephanta, the Victorian railway station, Malabar Hills. Unavoidable as poverty and suffering are in India, I also did not seek them...
...1980s have surely been the decade of empire revivalism. From the masterful televison adaptation of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet to an inept film of E.M. Forster's A Pasage to India--even Bertolucci's The Last Emperor--films about imperialism, and particularly its demise, have become hits here and in Europe. Offering torrid plots set in tropical lands, films about empire have the perfect formula for success--glory, romance, violence and politics...
...their greed, their savagery and their pettiness. Written and directed by James Dearden (who also wrote the screenplay for last year's sleeper, Fatal Attraction), Pascali's Island is a different kind of empire film. Instead of glorifying empire, it is decidedly unsympathetic. Stripped of the pageantry of the Raj, the decadence of a forbidden city and intriguing tribesman, this film ineffectively belittles both the Turks and the Greeks who fought them...
...like Stalin's, would not feel entirely secure until all other nations felt entirely insecure. Predatory or paranoid, the old men in the Kremlin seemed determined to continue playing the "Great Game" much as Rudyard Kipling had described it a hundred years before, when Czarist Russia and the British Raj maneuvered for influence among the tribes of the Hindu Kush...