Word: sakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Center and Pebble Beach golf courses have been replaced by a growing malaise. Joblessness, bankruptcy, crime and suicide, once rare in Japan, are now just average headlines. In the recession-ravaged hot-springs resort town of Yufuin, citizens are hedging their futures by resorting to barter trade. Taxi rides, sake and even hospital bills can be paid for with a local scrip called the yufu. What backs it? Locals do odd jobs in return for yufu. "Our wealth is slipping away," moans Eisuke Sakakibara, a former Vice Minister in the once all-powerful Ministry of Finance...
...while they aren’t utterly loony—they are of a certain extremely left wing stripe that is—I mean it’s a polemic. I like polemics, there is nothing wrong with writing polemics—I hope, for my own sake. But the point is that you are going to build up a certain public image, and it just seems that you (McCarthy) were suggesting that there was something quasi-racist about all these white alums having this impression that Cornel West must not deserve to be here because he is doing...
...exhibition with more a question than a message, because each artist has his own way of adapting his work to different tasks. Some, like Collier Schorr and his revealing photos of awkward adolescents, make no distinction between creating work for its own sake and trying to vend clothes. Others, such as Banu Cennetoglu and his dimension-defying landscapes, seem to be sticking in the models as an afterthought to their previous works. So the gimmick both works and it doesn’t: we indeed get to see a very rare sight, how commisioned and non-commissioned art from...
...class life. But rather than push the story with scenes like the aforementioned, Solondz and his film falls into the trap of self-reflection. Oxman meets and reviews the documentary footage with his editor (Frankie Potente), and she accuses him of dislike and exploitation of his characters for the sake of entertaining his audience. Again, if this sounds like the aftermath of Happiness, it is. Solondz spent many interviews defending his attitude, claiming ambivalence and empathy toward his characters, and not disdain and mockery. Solondz continues to lampoon his critics as Oxman inteviews Goodman about the evils of college...
It’s a good question. Let’s assume for argument’s sake that torture—the “time-tested technique for loosening tongues,” as Dershowitz has called it—will inevitably occur in “ticking bomb” scenarios. Let’s even assume it’s morally justifiable, and that the information obtained is reliable (a claim that many dispute). Isn’t it better to have the use of torture governed by a judicial system subject to democratic checks than...