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...enormous impact on the quality of people's lives. It determines where we walk, what time we walk, even whether we play bingo at night and whether we go to the theater." Sums up San Francisco Mayor Diane Feinstein: "Crime can be as paralyzing as any autocrat if, as it increasingly does, it imprisons citizens in their homes because they fear to venture outside...
With the entrance of the two leading women, Happy End takes off. Elizabeth Norment makes a sultry autocrat, ever-cool and competent. Although she has to strain her voice a bit to carry off "the Ballad of the Lily of Hell," she infuses the number with an energy and viciousness that recalls--for a moment--Threepenny Opera's brilliant evocation of evil...
Along with his saturnine sideman, Georges Pompidou, "le grand Charletan" provided the Duck with a target as big as the Ritz. He was caricatured endlessly and uproariously as an arrogant, sleepy-eyed, bulbous-nosed autocrat...
Pressures on Meany to bow out had been building the past several months. The crusty autocrat was grief-stricken last March by the death of Eugenia, his wife of 59 years. Then, stepping out of a golf cart, he wrenched his knee and had a severe reaction to cortisone injections. After spending two months in the hospital and a month at home, he returned to work in August in a wheelchair. Meany was able to spend only a few hours a day in the office. "That just added to the stagnation," says an official at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington...
...wiser to support a regime in a country that has a system of succession assuring a measure of continuity than in a nation that does not. It is important to distinguish between institutionalized authoritarianism and autocracy. The latter by definition loses stability in the absence of the autocrat...