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...typical scientist would be more directed toward practical things. The kind of stuff I do is of questionable interest to underdeveloped countries. But the fact of the matter is that among these hundred people the interest was enormous. What they knew and what they were interested in, I must confess, surprised...
...hard-hat type of guy (making $160 a week and enjoying it less) who one day hears a stranger sitting next to him at a bar confess to a murder. This stranger, you see, is a $60,000-a-year advertising exec who has just killed his wayward daughter's junkie-freak boyfriend and has no fears about admitting his crime to the first person he sees...
...Revolution began. The upper echelon of the diplomatic corps was ordered home to undergo intensive reindoctrination in Mao's thoughts, and repeated sessions of selfcriticism. When the Ambassador to Pakistan returned to Peking, for example, he was compelled to kneel at the airport, bow to the masses and confess that he had picked up bourgeois habits...
...cannot play ball with both sides." When "Red Flag" radicals pledged to smash his Canton headquarters. Huang ordered his troops to open fire on the young fanatics, ignoring the fact that they were the particular darlings of Mao's wife Chiang Ching. Huang was summoned to Peking to confess his errors, but the following spring he was promoted to Chief of Staff...
Deft Intrigue. Dobbs spends most of the movie trying to force Mellie to confess to murder; she spends most of her time trying to figure out just whom she killed. One unsure note is the convenient reason she resists Bronson's insistent interrogation: a childhood trauma has made her reluctant to confess anything. Still, Clement weaves his intrigues so deftly that such minor annoyances never seriously intrude...