Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Levanter (1972), the hero is Michael Howell, a businessman in Syria who has a Cypriot mother and a Lebanese-Armenian grandmother. He calls himself a "Levantine mongrel," and he spend this time working out deals with a corrupt government to make profits for his company. All this until he falls in with a band of Palestine guerillas. This band may have been fighting for the liberation of their people at one time, but in Ambler's world they are now no more than thugs parading under false pretences. And the Israeli secret service is almost...
...Review and writing a thesis on Einstein, Lanier says Pavlovich made other, equally outrageous claims. Spiro said he was the great grand-nephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia, the nephew of a man who "owned most of lower Louisiana," and the godson of Leander Perez, a notoriously powerful and corrupt Plaquemines parish politician. Lanier began to get suspicious, but it was Spiro's statement that he was an avid scuba diver that really destroyed his credibility. One of Lanier's partners was a scuba enthusiast, and fooled Spiro into expanding on the subject, about which Pavlovich knew nothing. The firm...
...Larry tells Sarah after his mother's first visit to his Village apartment. And when he heads out for ultimate success on Sunset Boulevard, the tenderest thing he can tell his tearful Mama is "You're a funny lady, Ma." Larry did not need New York to corrupt him; detachment and glib posturing must have come easily to him even before he bought his first authentic-looking French beret. Still, the image would be all right if Mazursky did not spoil the effect by having his mother reply, "My life has not been very funny." Something lurks beneath this array...
Jimmy Carter is not naive. He is merely attempting to capitalize on the mood of the electorate that regards politics as entirely corrupt and wishes to believe that government can be run entirely on the basis of honesty and efficiency. In fact, by penetrating the haze Carter has attempted to create around his campaign and record as governor of Georgia, one finds his stands are perfectly congruent with the attitudes of Southern conservatism...
...political affairs, since the elections simply confirmed what had been going on in plain sight for nearly a decade. But then to think that giving money to anti-Communist politicians would stem the rising red tide raises misunderstanding to the level of folly. Admittedly, Italian politicians are a notoriously corrupt bunch. Even the PC has taken a bribe or two in its day from large American companies (it was disclosed last year that Gulf had contributed several million dollars to PC election campaigns). But of all the politicians in Italy the DC anti-Communists to whom the money was presumably...