Word: blackmailer
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...Sleep. Let's get this straight: it's the nymphomaniac younger sister, played in this film version by Martha Vickers, who finally turns out to have murdered the missing Irishman and to have set off this story's complex web of blackmail and murder. That's the answer to the question, asked whenever this film is brought up, of who comes out as the culprit in the end. At least that's the answer in the book; whether it actually carried over into this screenplay is not at all clear. One of those great rumors has it that Faulkner...
...warm embrace, a handshake" to the opposition. He offered to lift the state of emergency, release political prisoners and relax press censorship if the National Alliance would promise an end to "agitational politics." Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, the only prominent opposition leader not in jail, called the proposal "political blackmail." Said he: "By trying to bargain with the opposition on the question of human rights, Bhutto is attempting to strengthen his rule over the country." With the politicians locked in a dangerous standoff, some observers feared that the next response might come from the army, which has a long and inglorious...
...team up, and the case of the missing puss-puss predictably leads them into a tangled web of blackmail, murder and all the other sordid goings-on that the back of any good dime novel promises. This set-up isn't half bad, pairing a slowed-down gum shoe with a hanger-on from the age of Aquarius. As a mere thematic gimmick, however, it's not too much less than half bad, and risks making you wish that directors would cut out these nostalgic and unimaginative throw-backs to the classics. But extra dimensions fast begin to fill...
Sakharov told TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark that he attributed the wave of repression to a Soviet attempt to "blackmail" Carter into silence on the human rights issue. Soviet Exile Andrei Amalrik told TIME Correspondent David Aikman in Holland that "the Soviet Union wants to see how tough Carter...
...plot of an antique B movie: he rents a remote and gloomy castle and sets up shop as a master criminal, abducting the professor-proprietor of a doomsday machine and forcing him-he has this beautiful daughter, you see-to employ the weapon as an instrument with which to blackmail the world. It is a measure of his madness that all he wants in return for not using the machine is Clouseau's life...