Word: samurais
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...geisha pleading, "Please, Kirk Douglas-san, your autograph." Regretfully rubbing his chin, which is as deeply dimpled as Kirk's, Mitchum resolved that future excursions would have to be incognito. Next day on the set, he inspected a possible disguise: the beehive headgear originally worn by jobless, mendicant samurai trying to hide their shame...
...help predict "biological, intellectual, and economic consequences." At the forefront of his "free will" is a new "mass of capable men," engendered by sterilization programs in which mankind can "tolerate no dark corners where the people of the abyss may fester." In A Modern Utopia, these supermen are called Samurai. And even though they rule over a socialist state, it is they--and not the masses--who are the key to the society. His gigantic Outline of History is more Wells than history, as again, nations and cultures rise because of a ruling elite, and fall on account...
...current show is dominated by new, thrusting, pillar-like sculptures, which Nagare labels with obscurantic titles like Time and Motion. Some critics have decided that these dramatic works spring from Nagare's brief career assisting a maker of samurai swords. That may be, but Nagare himself takes no interest in the sword theory. Says he: "The only way possible to prevent myself from being overwhelmed by the great glories of nature at Shikoku is to turn incessantly erotic." Each tune he sculpts a male image, he counters it by making something female, like a small piece that started...
...term Ukiyo-e means "pictures of the floating world," or, with a tinge of Buddhist severity, "images of the world of illusion." Ukiyo-e, which embodied a shift away from the stony feudal pietas of Japan's ancestral samurai culture, have a style and a subject matter that could only have taken hold in a bustling, sophisticated city like 18th century Edo (later called Tokyo). In Edo, a new class of merchants and craftsmen had risen. Like any bunch of Sony executives whooping it up in an Akasaka nightclub, the members of this bourgeoisie took their pleasures as they...
...Woody Allen's best film, with excellent parody inserts of film styles), Bad Company (a Western by the authors of Bonnie and Clyde), Bed and Board (a witty film by Truffaut), Exterminating Angel (pointed, vicious, yet entertaining surrealism at an upper class dinner party by Luis Bunuel), Yojimbo (a samurai Western by Kurosawa), The Hireling (a deficient companion piece to The go-Between), and finally, those two theaters wading in stagnant ponds...