Word: confession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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...
...come to the French island of Réunion to meet her future husband, a wealthy tobacco farmer named Louis. From the photographs they exchanged by letter, she is almost unrecognizable. He had expected a sweet but faintly dowdy brunette; she meets him as a startlingly glamorous blonde. They confess to each other that they lied in their letters so that they would not be married for the wrong motives. He said that he was a factory foreman with a modest income; she sent her sister's photograph...