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...award was once worth caring about. Since 1947, when the Italian film Shoeshine was the first foreign-language film to receive an Oscar, the category has honored both landmark art (The Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, Through a Glass Darkly, 8 1/2) and sophisticated diversion (Seven Samurai, Z, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Day for Night). The Academy might err on the side of aesthetic conservatism; trailblazers such as Godard, Antonioni and Fassbinder were never so much as finalists for the prize, and directors like Bergman and Truffaut were cited years after their films had won critical acceptance. But in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Handicapping the Foreign Oscar | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...heart of the center's program is a series of eight afternoon seminars with titles like "The Samurai Spirit in Business Strategy" and "The Concentration Power of Zen in Business." For $60 a session, executives learn everything from how to drink green tea (slowly, unlike sake, which is downed in a gulp) to where to sit during a conference (not in the first seats offered) and when and where to take off one's shoes. The students are taught go, a traditional Japanese board game, and are introduced to the psychology behind sumo wrestling. The sessions, which combine lectures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zen in the Executive Suite | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...Samurai, stop killing...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: What's the Message? | 10/24/1984 | See Source »

Mouse meets the Fitzpatricks in Santa Barbara, complete with their Samurai-warrior fashioned son, and we meet the end of any attempt at quality. With some real acting and more subtle directing and dialogue, the Fitzpatricks could make Bad Manners a riskier Risky Business. They could, but they...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: One From the Gross-Out School | 9/28/1984 | See Source »

...public figures" in the eyes of the court, the moral quality of the grouping is disingenuous. As an elected official possessing the actual power to obliterate all our world and representing our nation to other nations. Richard Nixon possessed a responsibility that John Belushi never approached as a Samurai Baker. After all, were Richard Nixon, as President of the United States to walk out of the Rose Garden and shoot the Soviet Leader of the Month dead, the resultant high speed missiles would have implications more intense than anything that everybody's favorite fraternity brother could do by overdosing...

Author: By Clark J. Freshmen, | Title: The Price of Arrogance | 9/21/1984 | See Source »

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