Word: authoritarianism
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...done," Allen says, "because of the confusion, because of the feelings that she's feeling but maybe she's not showing because she's a person in the CIA. I found it much more layered than I had ever imagined it." She also had to talk herself into being authoritarian. "I had to bolster myself to believe I knew what...
...received their holiday food baskets. As head of the New York organization in the 1950s, he handpicked Robert F. Wagner Jr. as mayor and W. Averell Harriman as Governor and, some said, could have named the Democratic presidential nominee. But by the late 1960s he had been denounced as authoritarian, convicted of petty bribery and defeated in local elections...
...Zhang's new movie, House of Flying Daggers, comes as a pleasant corrective, as if the 52-year-old director wanted to counter every criticism of his last movie. Didn't like Hero's creepily authoritarian politics, which seemed to implicitly approve of China's string of ruthless central governments, both past and present? Daggers is a determinedly light-on-its-feet martial-arts romance with plenty of pretty costumes and period-specific peony pavilions. Got lost in Hero's narrative morass? Then skip as quickly as possible to the fightin' and the lovin' of Daggers. The new film...
...makes a move to sell major assets, the government decides it wants more control over its black gold. The company balks - and finds itself accused of tax evasion. Though it sounds like Russia's Yukos saga, this scenario is playing itself out in neighboring Kazakhstan between the government of authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev and British energy giant BG Group. On July 19, citing the results of a March audit, Kazakhstan's financial police accused the company's local subsidiary, BG Karachaganak, of failing to pay $5.4 million in customs duties on liquid natural gas it produced between...
...were also surprised when Aznar told Colombian radio station W Radio that he still has classified intelligence documents from after the attacks. Socialist Party and other officials have called for an inquiry to determine whether Aznar broke the law by retaining the reports. "This is a sign of his authoritarian and self-centered way," says Begoña Lasagabaster, a Basque congresswoman. The bad publicity just kept coming. Cadena Ser, a well-regarded Spanish radio network, reported that in January the Spanish government hired Washington law firm Piper Rudnick to, among other things, help Aznar collect the Congressional Gold Medal...