Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral descends over the proceedings. Mark must contend with a confiscatory Bahamian government, which demands half of his take before he even recovers it. Then other sharks start circling: an unscrupulous Manhattan art dealer named John Vallantine, who decides to relieve Mark of his remaining $150 million, and corrupt lawyers in the U.S. who gather to pick off the leftovers. Drowning in litigation, the hero asks his own lawyer, who has already secretly agreed to sell him out, how such things can happen. The reply: "Mark, the trouble with you is, you don't understand that evil is / stronger...
...four-term Governor of New York and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee, Alfred E. Smith was celebrated as an honest politician in a corrupt milieu. But a chapter deleted from the recently published autobiography of Thomas L. Chadbourne, a wheeling-dealing corporation lawyer, claims that during the 1920s Chadbourne gave Smith cash and stock options worth $400,000. The motive was high-minded: the payments were designed to augment Smith's $10,000-a-year Governor's salary so the Happy Warrior could live "without bread-and- butter worries." Chadbourne, who died in 1938, admits he was miffed when Smith later...
Asked by a corrupt police chief what his occupation is, he replies, "I'm a shepherd." Confronted by a huge and angry attack dog, he cries, "Look, defenseless babies," then muses as he skids away from the befuddled beast, "Fell for the oldest trick in the book." Staring down the wrong end of a revolver aimed at him by the mastermind of a drug-smuggling and -peddling scheme, the reporter eyes the plaques on the wall behind the crook and sighs, "You know, if you shoot me you'll lose a lot of those humanitarian awards...
...later, Boyd's Henderson Dores would not be believable as a pure man; he must be inept and pusillanimous. When last seen, he has lost his job and his women, and his life hangs on his ability to outrun a real attacker. So much, says Boyd, for the insufficiently corrupt...
...greatest coup was in 1796, when he received 371 sheets by Durer in a transfer from the imperial court library in Vienna. Not all were genuine, and scores were lost by theft during his lifetime, thanks to a corrupt employee who sold them to dealers, but the Albertina collection today is to Durer what the royal collection at Windsor is to Leonardo...