Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...palaces for their private comfort, hotels and apartment houses for their private profit. Officials and palace hangers-on made fortunes in kickbacks and invested their profits in Egyptian or Lebanese real estate. When a Western diplomat tried to hint to Ibn Saud that his money was being stolen by corrupt officials, the Old Lion summoned his finance minister and demanded 1,000,000 riyals on the. spot. Soon sacks of coins were stacked around him. Triumphantly, the old king turned to the diplomat, declaring: "As King I must know that there is money available for state needs. This proves that...
...first years it relied heavily on exposés. It broke postwar West Germany's first parliamentary scandal with charges that two Bundestag Deputies were corrupt; they were not reelected. Later, before the 1953 elections, Der Spiegel charged bribe-taking in the right-wing Bayernpartei; all 17 party Deputies lost their seats in Bonn. Last year it broke the story of Prince Bernhard's rift with Queen Juliana, of The Netherlands over Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25). The magazine's most sensational exposé was a 1952 story charging that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom...
Williams claims that his script is a study of Southern degeneracy and of the influence of foreign blood on a corrupt system. In point of fact, it is a telescoping of two earlier short plays--Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Long Stay Cut Short--and, for Williams at least, is a second-rate work. The story concerns itself with Baby Doll, a delicious but nearly brainless child of twenty, who is legally though not in fact the wife of Archie Lee Meighan, a middle-aged owner of a broken-down cotton gin. Goaded beyond endurance...
...guest, the camera peeps out between swaying curtains to take in the soft tones of a series of lush interiors and to catch, as if by accident, the people who sport in them. As a result, an aura of perfume seems to hang over the production--seductive, but faintly corrupt...
...Emperor Jones is familiar enough to the audience so that the present abridged version conveys nearly all of O'Neill's original. Instead of first seeing Jones as the corrupt misruler of a jungle island we first meet him as he is fleeing from the wrath of his subjects, plunging into the jungle. The emperor bursts on stage, confident and arrogant, but already tired of running. The fear and disintegration seen in Jones on his frantic flight is echoed remorselessly by the ceaseless native drums, coming louder and closer and faster until, finally, Jones is shot. At this ponit...