Word: corruptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Portillo called the private bankers traitors, blaming them for the crisis. The government's corrupt and miscalculating economic policy caused...
...punk beauty named Alba and her lover, an cerie, Prospero-like figure who seems to know what's going on at all the most confusing moments in the movie--these are the film's principal characters. Assorted punks and thugs from at least two underground crime operations and a corrupt chief of police also join in the fray. And an attractive policewoman, who ends up the saving the day, makes a brief but efficient appearance...
...hacked away. Gone is fully half of the book of Psalms, which might now be better retitled David's Greatest Hits. The prophets are especially victimized. Besides large chunks, telling phrases are lost. Consider the felicitous line from Jeremiah: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt." Snip out the last three words. Or this passage from Isaiah, immortalized in Handel's Messiah: "He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities." Away with the second phrase, on grounds of redundancy. So much for poetry...
U.S.S.R.: THE CORRUPT SOCIETY by Konstantin Simis Simon & Schuster; 316 pages...
...book. He was obliged to leave the Soviet Union and now lives in Virginia. No angry, polemicizing emigre, he is saddened by the debasement of a nation that was once built on Utopian principles, albeit by terror and violence. "Year after year since childhood," he writes, "I watched as corruption ate more deeply into society until it turned the Soviet regime in the '60s and '70s into a land of corrupt rulers, ruling over a corrupted people...