Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carlos, the patriarch of the family, grew up in Cuba and, as a professor of history at the University of Havana, helped write his country's 1940 constitution. Nearly two decades later he found himself opposing both the corrupt regime of President Fulgencio Batista and the revolution headed by a former student of his named Fidel Castro. After Castro gained power on New Year's Day 1959, Don Carlos, his wife and stepdaughter fled the country and settled in Washington. Uva's boyfriend Jorge left Cuba to join Uva in 1961. That same year, the family moved...
...moral energy here, actually a righteous and unco-optable underdog, actually a clear, courageous and sharp challenge to all the bullshit. May be no other episode matches the Polish revolution of 1980-81 for demonstrating the power of people to act peacefully, but forcefully, to overturn the old and corrupt; for all its technical flaws, this movie captures the spirit and the fact of that revolution and should be seen by anyone who gives a damn about that country or this...
...Jesse James (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Fonda is virtually cornered into renegade political activism; a corrupt System flays him, but under the vulnerable Midwestern skin is a species of American hero. In his best comedy, The Lady Eve (1941), Fonda is the perfect patsy for a con woman, Barbara Stanwyck?so perfect that she falls in love with the sap. Watching Fonda writhe under Stanwyck's bogus endearments remains one of the high delights of screwball farce...
Just as ham-fisted hoodlums are about to ignite the subpoenaed accounts of a corrupt union, federal agents burst in, guns drawn. Then, with split-second timing, other teams of FBI men miles away sweep up crooked businessmen, racketeers and a tainted state investigator. One key arrest comes after a manic broken-field chase through the pushcarts and costermongers of New York's Fulton Fish Market. The villain is nabbed just in time to save the life of an undercover agent whose fake identity has been blown...
Widespread tolerance in Massachusetts of the corrupt system has kept it alive, Ward says. The former American history professor believes the public's corruption may stem from the "political culture" of Massachusetts. Because immigrant ethnic groups in Boston found themselves oppressed and shut out of government upon their arrival in America. Ward explains, they developed a political system "based on friendship, neighborhood, ethnicity, creating a tolerance for favoritism and shady dealings...