Word: careerist
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Albert Carnesale, professor of Public Policy, termed the Haig appointment "the end of an era," adding that "for a long time the country had hoped for a time in which military force played a less important role in world affairs." Haig is "a military careerist, not a statesman," he said...
Nine years ago Gierek gave Kania the job of running Poland's entire security apparatus-its espionage, counterespionage and police services. "He is very much the Communist law-and-order man," says one expert on Poland. A nimble careerist, Kania was named to the ruling Politburo in 1975 and now, at 53, is the youngest Communist Party chief in the Soviet bloc. Notes a West German specialist: "He has the strong ambition and ruthlessness needed to survive at the top levels...
...lover himself (he has a parakeet and a gerbil). Galvanized, he begins to notice Natalie and then to woo her with Russian vodka and folk songs, notably one about nightingales singing in the raspberry bushes. Then he manages to rescue the dog and save Natalie from marriage to a careerist cop, who obviously does not waste time on stolen dogs or singing birds...
...another paradox here-of ending her lover's party career and enhancing her own. The film is written and directed with a kind of deadpan subtlety (perhaps the only way it could be done in a country that is, after all, Communist). It is impossible to say if careerist calculation enters into this act of betrayal. Mostly it seems to be the result of the girl's radical innocence. One feels, leaving the theater, that she is still alive and well in Hungary, still rising in the ranks, still grateful, and therefore still blindly loyal to whatever imperatives...
...high points belong to King and MacGraw. He is Max, a fast-dealing, fast-talking zillionaire with a penchant for keeping women in overdecorated Manhattan pads. She is "Bones," a TV producer and longtime protégée who revolts against Max by making careerist demands and carrying on with an off-off-Broadway playwright (Peter Weller). King is too much of a pussycat to convey the hero's toughness, but he delivers Allen's best sallies with crackling speed ("I'll tell you who lives in New Jersey! Cousins live in New Jersey!"). Though MacGraw...