Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great man is knifed. Revenge is accomplished or unholy ambition thwarted. This is only a rerun of Julius Caesar, without the blank verse. Long live, for a time, Brutus. With kidnaping, however, you have torment direct and referred−the waiting, the humiliation, the delivery of an earlobe, the blackmail that tempts us all to wish to compromise with justice and make a fool of the law. "Free those undoubted, or figurative, criminals or we kill this figurative, or undoubted, one." But once we give in, the law is finished forever...
...long run for a society to refuse to negotiate or to surrender to terrorist demands. Observes Heyward Isham, director of a U.S. Government interagency group set up against terrorism: "A posture of making no concessions to demands may seem coldblooded. But the minute they think they can blackmail you, it leads to an endless chain of demands...
...character is everything in Chandler's work. The plot of The Big Sleep is impossibly convoluted, turning ever more tightly in on itself as blackmail schemes keep multiplying. It represents a deliberate attempt by the author to cancel out, perhaps even parody, conventional detective story suspense. The idea was to hold the reader's interest with mood, dialogue and above all eccentric, not to say grotesque people. The fact that Writer-Director Winner has been more "faithful" to Chandler's story line than Hawks and his writers (among them, William Faulkner) is no virtue at all. What...
...such Soviet military activities do not stop, Carter suggested, the U.S. public may turn against detente, endangering any type of cooperation between the two superpowers. Citing a ''massive" buildup in Soviet conventional forces, which could be used "for political blackmail and could threaten our vital interests," the President vowed: "We will match, together with our allies and friends, any threatening power through a combination of military forces, political efforts and economic programs. We will not allow any other nation to gain military superiority over...
...Soviet ambassador didn't believe it. He thought it was an attempt at blackmail...