Word: blackmailer
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...plight of the burakumin. She thoroughly intertwines the tales of three dynamic characters—Lois, a Harvard-educated painter, Shintaro, the buraku, and a stockbroker usually known as Max or Jack. She deftly uncovers the seediness of the cosmopolitan gaijin (foreigner) world of nightclubs and gin-and-tonics, blackmail and insider trading. Her most delightful descriptions are of these underworld dealings and of the intrigues in the personal lives of the protagonists, each of whom loves the one member of the trio who doesn’t love him or her in return...
...Each country accuses the other of using diplomats as a cover for spying. So India and Pakistan both routinely tap each other's embassy telephones, tail diplomats around the cocktail circuit and sometimes have dispatched gigolos to seduce each other's wives for future blackmail. One barometer of the chill between India and Pakistan is the frequency with which they toss out each other's diplomats. The temperature is decidedly frosty: last week, Indian police allegedly slapped around and expelled a Pakistani diplomat for spying, and the Pakistanis responded in kind. In South Asia, the "foreign hand" is always restless...
...Sidney, whom Susie rightly pegs as having a "clever little mind," is always being outsmarted: by Rita, by a columnist (Lawrence Dobkin as Leo Bartha) whom he tries to blackmail into running an item, by Hunsecker and finally by J.J.'s sister. Sidney - who we know is making a hefty $250 a week, just from two clients we hear complain to him during the movie, so is probably earning much more - is a cheapie who won't wear a topcoat on a winter night: "And leave a tip in every hat-check room in town?" But his thrift earns...
Schuller - who ran the housing department in the rpr-controlled Paris suburb of Hauts-de-Seine from 1989 to '94 - fled France in 1995 after a bungled attempt to intimidate and blackmail investigating magistrate Eric Halphen. At the time, Halphen was heading an inquiry into alleged illegal rpr funding from kickbacks on public-housing contracts in the district. Halphen quit the judiciary in January, complaining that his seven-year investigation had been repeatedly sabotaged. Before leaving his Caribbean hideaway, Schuller told journalists that he intended to explain how "the system which magistrates have been investigating is not that of Councilor...
Hussein, of course, has rejected smart sanctions, international weapons inspectors and an expanded oil-for-food program. He has continued to use the people of Iraq as his pawns in a callous act of international blackmail, exhibiting their abject poverty as evidence of U.S. cruelty while he and his henchmen live in luxury. His behavior is evidence of his utter disregard for the people of Iraq—if anyone had needed more from a leader who attacked his own nation’s citizens with nerve...