Word: blackmail
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...prosper; they now control most of Japan's pachinko parlors. Former Chongryun officials say North Korea made it clear that the well-being of loved ones back home depended on how often -- and how much -- their relatives in Japan were willing to contribute to the Kim regime. The blackmail money goes through Chongryun to the government...
Artistically, Passion is one of the great turnarounds. During previews, it seemed hopeless. The obsessed woman struck spectators as akin to a stalker, too creepy to induce sympathy. Her unstinting devotion resembled emotional blackmail. The narrative, two hours without intermission, felt strained and wearisome. Many theatergoers fidgeted or tittered in the wrong places. (There aren't many right places to laugh in Passion, which makes no use of Sondheim's greatest gift -- a talent for writing intricate comic lyrics that fit the characters.) Sensing disaster, Sondheim and director-librettist James Lapine revamped the plot, recast a major role, picked...
...embarrassing enough that a Harvard professor should deign to appear on the same stage with a woman who has made her fortune by persuading people to reveal to national television shameful stories that in a more tasteful age they would have gladly paid copious blackmail to suppress...
...other rogue states before it's too late -- no matter the know-nothings whose knee-jerk reaction to creative diplomacy is to cry appeasement. It won't always work. It didn't with Iraq. But peace prospects grow as fewer states are isolated. The time to deal with nuclear blackmail is before those who would threaten trouble acquire the wherewithal to make...
...going to put up with federal blackmail," State Sen. Joseph Wineke (D-Verona) said in a phone interview from his Wisconsin office yesterday. "Some state has got to take a stand...