Word: slaving
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...movie seems enshrouded by fate, so are its characters. Jinshan (Li Wei) runs a dye factory in northwestern China in the 1920s. This vile old man has taken a young wife, Ju Dou (Gong Li), who is made a slave to his viciousness. In bed he gags and harnesses her and rides her like a donkey, and the night bleeds with her shrieks. But the degradations stir Ju Dou's willfulness and sensuality. Now she undresses before the avid eyes of Tianqing (Li Baotian), her husband's adopted son. By abandoning herself to him, she hopes to liberate the captive...
...movie, after Patton's dazzling tank dash across Belgium and Germany to defeat Hitler's armies in 1945: "For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph, a tumultuous parade . . . The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot . . . A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning that all glory is fleeting." One imagines that if there had been a voice whispering in Bush's ear, it would have sounded like Richard Nixon's -- confiding, sepulchral, full of its dark shrewdness...
Various arguments have been put forth in favor of the draft. The all-volunteer army is too poor, too Black. It is not reflective of society at large. It serves as "slave labor" for comfortable, white members of the middle class, and it dies in their stead. The present situation is simply unfair, according to this line of reasoning; universal conscription would ensure equity...
...face-lifts and possibly risking their health by having silicone injected into their breasts, she thinks Wolf's book distorts the relationship between feminism and beauty. Women, she says, do not have to choose between the two, but can delight in a frivolous enjoyment of fashion without becoming a slave to it. In contrast, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, an associate professor of women's studies at Cornell University, who wrote a 1988 history of anorexia titled Fasting Girls, welcomes Wolf's book as another expose of the kind of self-inflicted damage that women undergo as a matter of course...
Haley also credited Harvard for some of his success. Widener Library was "probably the best single source for information about ship building and ships," he said. Haley used the library's resources on slave ships when he researched Roots...