Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this movie, scorewriter John Williams studied African traditional music and integrated it with the Western musical idiom he usually works in. The movie teases us with this traditional music, but uses it only to underscore savagery and apparent backwardness; any scene of real emotional charge or import to the plot is backed up with a typical Western-style orchestra and chorus. At one point, the Africans seem to have converted to Christianity, as they apparently hold aloft and make supplications to a copy of the Bible, a turn of events more than a little disturbing and perverse...
...were often less than politically correct. (After all, some of the original lyrics to "I've Got a Little List" would make modern audiences' ears burn). Contemporary productions of the play often transfer the setting to England or to America; Zayas's interpretation retains a modern-day version of Western perceptions of Japan, while steering clear of the treacherous waters of nineteenth-century Orientalism...
...self-styled "professional revolutionary," Carlos managed to evade Western security services for 21 years. The Jackal (so named by a journalist who found a copy of Fredrick Forsyth's "Day of the Jackal" in his abandoned bag) is alleged to have committed at least 20 spectacular terrorist attacks ? and caused more than 80 deaths...
...image of a terrorist with all these gadgets, who could shoot his way out of trouble, had access to the apartments of young women all over Europe, and who, despite being the most wanted man in the world, appeared to be able to move in and out of Western countries at will." The anti-James Bond, in other words...
Approximately 40 students attended a forum with members of the search committee, voicing concerns with the diversity of the faculty, the manner in which the opening will be advertised, the potential for curriculum development in non-Western traditions, the feminist perspective and interdisciplinary expertise of the candidates...