Word: behest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bureaucrats either went along with the demolition or found other jobs. Any civil servant of conscience had to be driven out long ago. The Competitiveness Council, first headed by George Bush and now by Dan Quayle, raised this corruption to new heights, by gutting laws and regulations at the behest of campaign contributors...
...also just the sort of thing that unnerves opponents of the National Endowment for the Arts, which helped underwrite it. The title character's dance of the seven veils, performed by Sheryl Lee, is intensely erotic, authentically nude. The beheading of John the Baptist at Salome's behest, after he has thwarted her lust, is sickening yet hypnotic -- and is based on biblical-era chronicles. The pervasive homosexual passion is faithful not only to Wilde but to the culture he portrays. Pacino presides with calculated distraction and studied effeminacy that drop away, as he betrays the wayward Salome, to reveal...
...final clubs, near as we can tell, want to make sure they have a place to go where women (usually called "feminists," and usually "carping" at them) can't, unless they are there at the clubs' behest (in which case they are called "a bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," as a Pi Eta newsletter once...
...besides, after reading magazines like Vanity Fair and ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and watching shows like Entertainment Tonight, ordinary moviegoers are surprisingly fluent in the nuts and bolts of show business. Indeed, ET's Leeza Gibbons appears in The Player as her chirpy self, delivering lines written at Altman's behest by a real ET writer. "Why should I try to imitate somebody who does that?" explains the director. "I mean, he writes it as bad as it's going to be written...
That he died prematurely, of an overdose of .30-cal. bullets fired into him at the behest of business associates impatient with the slow return on their ; investment in his dream, is poignant. And ironic as well. Because before Siegel got around to reinventing Las Vegas, his most important project was reinventing himself. Far better known in the press and gossip of his glory days, the 1940s, as "Bugsy," he was perhaps the most famous mobster of his era. Not that he liked his colorful sobriquet (he tended to punch out people who used it in his presence...