Word: warlordism
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...refused. The ruthless, 38-year-old Chinese warlord had with his private army of as many as 5,000 men literally taken over the Burmese border town of Tachilek (pop. 10,000). There he had eight heroin factories and extensive warehousing facilities for independent operators. One narcotics agent who has studied Lo carefully told TIME'S Peter Simms: "You could take your opium to Lo and get a warehouse receipt that was as good in Tachilek as a First National City Bank draft is in New York. His chemists would analyze your opium, tell you the cost and give...
...Hole-in-the-Wall gang. Set in South Texas at the turn of the century. Peckinpah uses Mexico as the last frontier for dying gunmen, who finally rise above themselves and fight for some ideal when a revolutionary member of the group is captured by a Mexican warlord with whom the riders did business. The situations are no less important than the action, which is violent. Well acted, beautifully directed and photographed; the most successful cynic's western because it is fashioned from the inside...
...literally, "school of precious gems." Though the Rimpa school spanned 250 years and produced some of the finest decorative art Japan-or the world at large-has seen, its members were few and their identity often vague. Its founder was Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637). In 1615, a warlord gave Koetsu some land in the mountains around Kyoto. The artist laid out a village there: papermakers, dyers, weavers, calligraphers, lacquer masters and painters settled in it, with Koetsu presiding over them all. The collaborations that followed make it excruciatingly hard to determine which artist did what painting; Koetsu...
...Broadway. In 1932 he moved to Hollywood to begin a long film career that spanned more than 60 films. Although he never lost his thick Russian accent, Tamiroff plausibly played characters of nearly every nationality and won two Academy Award nominations for supporting actor-as the sinister Chinese warlord in The General Died at Dawn, and as the cowardly Spanish guerrilla leader Pablo in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...military apocalypse, somewhere in the world, hidden during the period of tribulation, would emerge a freemasonry of scientists, engineers and technicians who would create a new rule of efficiency and would clean up the world after the mess. They would put away the old artist, the old military warlord and the politician with his raging ideology. Well, when we do put away these people, we can't kid ourselves that we're not also putting away the bourgeois middle-class democratic system...