Word: corrupters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVING COUPLES. Another Swedish showpiece handsomely fashioned by Film-Star-turned-Director Mai Zetterling. Antimarriage, antisex, anti-men. Couples is a long, loving closeup of three young women who come to grief because of the vain, stupid, corrupt men they cannot...
...cast's consistently fine acting. Lawrence Pressman, as the young fop Hlestakov, plays up his effete poses and mannerisms, and produces an awkward caricature of the Russian man of fashion, Gwyllum Evans, as the mayor, uses exaggerated pomposity and self-importance to produce a cynical caricature of a corrupt Russian official. And Maureen Fitzgerald fills out his pomposity in her portrayal of the mayor's domineering, vain, and dissatisfied wife. But the scene-stealing prize goes to Lynn Milgrim as the mayor's bovine daughter. Her acting includes more than the clomping, the staring, and the whining she does...
...star who apparently intends to raise all kinds of hell on the other side of the camera. She begins by corralling three young women in a Stockholm maternity hospital and ends with a long, joyless look at a squalling baby. In the interim, she pours scorn over all the corrupt, vain, stupid and ineffectual males who have brought her heroines to grief...
...Ball. While direct campaign contributions by companies in federal elections are banned by the Corrupt Practices Act-as his fellow Senators know well-legal loopholes allow corporations to take expensive ads in political puff sheets, permit executives to donate to a political fund as "individuals." Last week the 17-member Senate Finance Committee-four of whose stalwarts are themselves up for re-election-passed a Williams-sponsored amendment to the Viet Nam tax bill aimed primarily at corporations, stipulating that their indirect political donations will no longer be even partly tax-deductible as "business expenses...
...instead of building them, dividing their peoples instead of uniting them. Nkrumah was a petulant oppressor who demanded constant adulation for himself and the wild schemes that all but sent his country into bankruptcy. In Nigeria, Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, although personally respected, presided over a conspicuously corrupt regime that stayed in power by rigging the census, playing one tribe against another, and cheating at the polls...