Word: corruptness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land of no holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm), is a dapper spiv of a pimp with a lively, corrupt intelligence. Joey (Terence Rigby), the younger, is a dub of a prizefighter, a would-be champion with a chimpanzee brain...
Second, it provides a special incentive to corrupt the police, because the police not only may be susceptible to being bought off, but even can be used to eliminate competition...
...organized crime so that large-scale criminal organization comes into being and maintains itself. It may be--this is an important question for research--that without these important black markets crime would be substantially decentralized, lacking the kind of organization that makes it enterprising, safe, and able to corrupt public officials. In economic-development terms, these black markets may provide the central core (or "infra-structure") of underworld business, capable of branching out into other lines...
...seems to me--I must clarify this point, I think--it's not the fact that they are corrupt or sold out to "Standard Oil," or anything of that kind. That is not what I am trying to point out. It's that the military believe in something that is out-dated in your eyes, and in the eyes, I believe of the majority of all people...
...awesome calm of Indian art often bewilders Western viewers. The gods -- the usual subject of Indian paintings and sculpture -- maintain an expression of cosmic serenity even when engaged in brutal battle or erotic activity. Many Westerners find the lush anatomy and serpentine lines oversensuous and corrupt, and on the whole the Indian aesthetic does not correspond to anything which is immediately meaningful to Western eves. The meaning and beauty of Indian art eludes anyone untutored in the thought from which the artists proceeded...