Word: corruptor
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...posted “RIP Holden Caulfield” on his Facebook page. But Holden will survive his creator. He’ll be just fine if he lives on, always 16, to keep offending book banners who, generation after generation, see him as a corruptor of American teenagers...
...evidence to this date, Anna seems like a curious production. Although Jodie Foster's talents have long been well established, Chow Yun Fat's popularity is questionable (he's best known for two mediocre movies in the states, The Replacement Killers and The Corruptor). This not to say that Chow Yun Fat is not a well known commodity in some circles. Aside from Sean Connery and Steve McQueen, Chow is probably the manliest man you would ever want to meet, having collaborated with director John Woo in brutal yet poetic action films like The Killer and Hard Boiled in their...
...politics, money doesn't just talk ? it gives speeches. It speaks loud, from a lush rented banquet hall, or wide, from the face in a slick campaign ad on national television. It is a megaphone for ideas, and also a corruptor of democracy, because when money it is given in large enough quantities ? and yes, Messrs. Forbes and Perot and Huffington, it must be given to be truly effective ? it wins elections. It buys votes, because it is votes. It signals support, so it attracts support, and thus it is self-fulfilling. And because no candidate can win without...
...functionary. His decade of influence was an eventful one on Capitol Hill, and Baker was able to participate in legislative history while enriching himself through private business dealings. The scandal that broke in 1963 instantly converted his status from that of all-American striver to one of cuff-linked corruptor. Last week, four years after his conviction for income tax evasion, conspiracy to defraud the Government and theft, he began a one-to three-year prison term. Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington bureau chief, found Baker remarkably mellow before parting with his freedom. Sidey's report...
...television daily. It hammers them like malleable gold; it takes and does not give; it bludgeons man, and voraciously relieves him of whatever sensitivity he timorously guards. Television has been described with varying enthusiasm as the great galvanizer, tranquilizer, hypnotizer, pacifier, stupefier, paralyzer, agitator, commentator, activator, adjudicator, erupter, corruptor. It provides a daily vindication of American technological genius, a daily spectacle of panoramic American social and political epiphanies, so that watching it is in part an act of self-congratulation. There is information given out in abundance. Yet consciousness of wrongs serves for moral conscience, and all social problems...