Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Qiao has another ploy at his disposal. As the former head of China's secret police, he undoubtedly has plenty of evidence of corruption among Jiang's allies. The last thing Jiang can afford when gathering allies for a post-Deng power struggle is the threat that they or their children could become targets. That may be impossible to avoid in today's China. "Everyone is on the take," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing, "from top bureaucrats to doctors and waitresses." "It's been said there are three options," says Lilley. "Shoot the corrupt, let them go free...
...hiss, she allowed, "I'll go out and learn how to make cabinets for a living if you will eliminate the current tax law. It's disgraceful the way my clients use it to avoid taxation, and I hate it. And I hate the irs. The whole system is corrupt." The crowd of more than 600 erupted in applause and shouts of approval. So Gingrich asked some questions of his own. "How many of you would pay $100 more if you could just have a simple tax, fill it out yourself and never use an accountant?" All but two hands...
...YOUR STORY ON CORRUPTION IN THE New Orleans police force [Crime, March 20], you imply that the reason police officer Antoinette Frank killed three people was that she was overworked and underpaid. But that cannot be the reason for triple murder. Here is another example of deviant behavior being "defined down'' to manageable proportions, affording Frank "victim'' status, rationalizing her heinous crime and making it more acceptable. She made a conscious choice to commit murder. She is responsible for that choice, and not the police, however corrupt...
Then there is Kemper Boyd, a corrupt FBI agent from a once illustrious and then bankrupt Tennessee family ("My father went broke and killed himself. He willed me ninety-one dollars and the gun he did it with"). Recognizing an accomplished sneak when he sees one, Director J. Edgar Hoover persuades Kemper to tender a sham resignation from the agency--while retaining his salary--and to hire on with Bobby Kennedy's Senate investigative team as a spy. Hoover hates the Kennedys. But Kemper, who gets the job, takes to the brothers, especially Jack, in whom he recognizes...
...that Talalay seems obliged to package these scenes of glorious heat lightning in the same ol', same ol', bad guy/good guy, action-movie plot. Although spoofing the conventional action movie is hardly original, Talalay's failure to comment on or corrupt the form seems naive, and betrays Tank Girl, forcing upon her the burden of morals. It's ironic that the three dimensional characters of the comic book become flat, at least in their simplistic division between good and evil, in the medium of film...