Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corrupt Carpetbaggers...
Eight Reconstruction years of corrupt southern rule by a combination of Negroes and carpetbaggers was followed by a bloody reestablishment of control by southern whites. Since that time the Supreme Court has generally attempted, through its rulings, to insure the Negroes the vote in practice that is their's on paper...
...done under Composer Henze's direction. The backdrop was surrealistic, the action stark; much of the time dancers moved in the distance, derisively, sometimes vulgarly satirizing the downstage action. But the critics denounced the work unanimously, suggested that the composer was too much the child of a corrupt and violent age. "His soul," wrote Il Tempo's critic, "is a page on which the evils of our age have written cruel words...
...major finished his report and snapped: "Enjoy it." But the people refused to enjoy it. They set up a new chant: "We want the revolution!" Leaf lets flooded the streets. Transport workers went on strike. Unionized cabs raced the streets, trailing slogans that read: "We Do Not Want Corrupt Politicians Again...
Laced Martinis. Casino Royale poses an unlikely sounding situation and makes it hum with tension. British Agent Bond's job is to gamble against a corrupt French Communist trade union official at the baccarat table of a French casino until he breaks the Frenchman's bankroll and his power. He does, but five murders, a kidnaping, a grisly torture sequence and a suicide intervene before Bond can really call his mission accomplished. Author Fleming keeps his incidents and characters spinning through their paces like juggling balls. As for Bond, he might be Marlowe's younger brother except...