Word: badgered
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...moment of fantasy: a critic, who has never ceased his sniping, is summarily taken up into the balcony and hanged. Reality again: everyone leaves the theater and a caravan takes them to an eerie Cape Canaveral set for the film, which is to be a science-fiction movie. Reporters badger Mastroianni once more, and he crawls under a table and shoots himself. This clears his head once and for all, and in a moment of revelation he sees that the way to turn chaos into creativity is to stop brooding about the hobgoblins of his dreams and to start working...
...handful of his most trusted associates. He controlled TWA until December 1960, when he was forced by a group of New York banks and insurance companies to place his stock in trusteeship in return for a $165 million loan to buy jets for TWA. When Hughes began to badger Charles Tillinghast, TWA's new, trustee-appointed president, Tillinghast fought back by suing Hughes for damages. Hughes countersued, charging Tillinghast and the lenders with conspiring to take TWA away from...
...keeps right on its tail. One fine morning, "without having done anything wrong," a bank clerk named Joseph K. (Tony Perkins) is arrested-or is it all just a bad dream? Two plainclothesmen burst into his bedroom, order him to dress, refuse to say what law he has broken, badger him for bribes, steal his best shirts, subject him to an apparently pointless "interrogation." And then breeze off, leaving K. in a sweat. Were they really plainclothesmen-or were they crooks? Is he really arrested-or is the whole affair a practical joke? "I've done nothing wrong...
...nearly 70 now-a dark, brooding, badger-faced man living in near-total oblivion in the enormous stone pile that is Spandau prison. But in May 1941, when Rudolf Hess suddenly landed in a cow pasture in Scotland and asked to see the Duke of Hamilton, the Deputy Führer of the Third Reich was full of high hope...
...West Germany's richest postwar wonder boys has come tumbling down. A big plunger in coal and steel stocks, Hermann Krages, 53, has seen his investments multiply 25 times since 1948. But though he got rich, he made few friends: Krages often used his minority holdings to badger managements until they bought him out at prices above the market just to be rid of him. The manner of Krages' fall last week told much about the immense power of banks in today's West Germany...