Word: servants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some bit of ingenuity and/or luck, Sellars discovered two talented young identical twins, Eugene and Herbert Perry, and cast them as Don Giovanni and his servant Leporello. This provides all kinds of ironies on the brotherhood of master and man, but it also obliterates the no less important differences between them. Thus in the famous scene in which the two switch costumes so that the servant can court one of his master's ladies, Sellars' twins make a meaningless exchange of their leather jackets...
...hear the clockwork sputtering inside the brawny breastplate of this week's heroids: Los Angeles supercop Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) in Lethal Weapon 2 and Her Majesty's secret servant James Bond (Timothy Dalton) in Licence to Kill. Both men are rogue avengers, out for bloody justice against cartels that have killed or threatened their partners and spouses. Both pictures, with their suavely depraved drug lords and curt disregard for constitutional safeguards, play like extended episodes of Miami Vice. Both scenarios choose their villains from the current list of least favored nations: South Africa in LW2, a thinly disguised Panama...
Traditionally, a public servant's private life is ignored in Japan, but the Sunday Mainichi's editor in chief, Shuntaro Torigoe, argued that "the time has come to question Japanese politicians' illicit relations with women." Questioned by legislators, Uno said, "I'd rather refrain from commenting on such matters in public...
...hanged himself with a necktie. As the man who had handled Takeshita's political finances, some newspaper commentators speculated, Aoki may have taken his life to shield the Prime Minister from possible criminal prosecution. But Aoki may simply have been following a long- standing Japanese tradition in which a servant accepts blame for his master's downfall by killing himself...
Agreeing with the charge that the school's policy analysis approach to politics was void of the humanism necessary for a public servant, he also called for a greater emphasis on ethics, values and governmental philosophy in the school's curriculum. "The principle challenge ahead will be to add those forms of education that will help government officials move beyond being mere bureaucrats and technicians to become the kinds of human beings to whom we would willingly entrust decisions that affect our lives," he wrote...