Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small, neat, wryly formidable man of 72, not unlike the short, chilly fantasies he writes-and he brightens up a bit as he adds: "I've steered clear of God. He was an incredible sadist. He created hell and that lake of fire-just over a little rebellion...
Wynn: The junta, at least for the moment, seems to have the machinery of power in its hands. What weapons do you envisage that opponents of the regime can use: civil disobedience, armed rebellion, international pressure...
...monarchist is for him to say. However, I think he made a definite switch when he saw I was absolutely opposed to dictatorship and his form of government. He had to act to divert public attention from the difficulties the regime faced in the country-the student uprisings, the rebellion of naval officers, economic problems...
...artistic effect, but Mishima's death did at least serve to endow his last works, now being published in English translation, with an eerie sense of death anticipating art. This is especially true of Runaway Horses, the second volume of the tetralogy; for its subject is right-wing rebellion and, presented in weirdly loving detail, the beauties of seppuku (ritual suicide). Camus said that "suicide is something planned in the silence of the heart, like a work of art." In Mishima, for all of the peculiar sensationalism of his death, there is a shocking aesthetic correspondence between...
...people at hand. "If we get an idea at 2 a.m., we call everybody and say 'Come on over and have some coffee.' " Run Run lives just above his movietown in an enormous red villa that is a replica of mansions from the day:; of the Boxer Rebellion. He also has a second villa, two apartments, a Rolls-Royce, Cadillac and Continental, and an eye for starlets. Runme lives in Singapore and is more circumspect, but has a penchant for horse racing. Together, the brothers Shaw have accumulated so much wealth that they have lost track...