Word: bureaucratizing
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Given the peculiarity of portraying neurotic tools, the three lead actors deliver uniformly fine performances. As Jean, the social-climbing, "wandering intellectual", Roger-Pierre--a paunchy, fifty-ish Charlie Chaplin, sans mustache--is the perfect ambitious bureaucrat: a tyrant with his wife, children, and mistress but a wimpy, play-by-the-rules kiss-ass in the office. Nicole Garcia's Janine represents that curious person you know well but who is either brilliant and wily or a complete and utter moron--and you can't decide which it is. Gerard Depardieu, oddly enough, looks more like Cro-Magnon...
Many Chinese, particularly those who suffered during the Cultural Revolution, remained totally unmoved by Jiang Qing's defense. "They wouldn't let me go to the trial as an observer," said one middle-level bureaucrat who spent four years in Peking's Qincheng Prison during the Cultural Revolution. "They were afraid I'd start shouting, 'Kill the bitch! Kill the bitch!' " Others grumbled that the case was a classic show trial whose purpose was only to give an appearance of legality to the vengeful elimination of the once powerful radical faction. "There...
DIRTY LINEN CONTAINS within it, like a diamond in a block of coal, a delightfully irrelevant two-man interlude entitled New-Found-Land. In the committee-room that the sex-scandal investigators have temporarily vacated, an elderly and a youthful Home Office bureaucrat deliver monologues to each other that epitomize stereotypical visions of England and America. The break is a welcome one. Keith Rogal as Bernard-- the senescent and near-deaf senior officer whose droning, endless tale of a five-pound bet with Lloyd George is by far the evening's funniest sequence-- turns hesitation into a form of comic...
...Harvard's failure to realize that striving for efficiency sometimes leaves people angry. Two weeks ago, 57 people who spend eight hours a day inside MATEP decided that they'd had enough, and put a temporary crimp in Harvard's plans. But in another two weeks, a state bureaucrat who has spent eight hours a day for a year thinking about MATEP will tell Harvard whether it can install its diesels--a decision that could ruin those plans permanently...
Hensley escorts the reporter outside and says, "Don't worry about Berry. He's just a bureaucrat." Hensley talks for a few minutes, and adds, "Look, if you have any problems, come back and see me. I'll be interviewed. I'll be here until six or seven." Hensley evokes the image of a 25-year-old 45-year...