Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JACK A. GLEASON, 38, White House aide. Pleaded guilty to violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act by running Operation Townhouse; sentencing delayed...
HERBERT W. KALMBACH, 53, Nixon's personal attorney. Pleaded guilty to violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act and to offering an ambassadorship in return for campaign contributions; serving a six-to-18-month sentence...
...POWER TENDS to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." John Acton didn't expect these immortal words to be the foundation for a rock oratorio of the twentieth century. Nowadays one would be tempted to deride anyone foolhardy enough to philosophize upon a money-and-corruption theme, to say nothing of consecrating six record sides to it. Well, if there is anyone in the realm of popular music that could make such an overworked story line appealing it's the Kink's Raymond Douglas Davies. His magic formula of piercing insight combined with a wry, subtle wit enables Davies...
...setting the stage, presents three characters or archetypes based upon the three sides of Davies's shifting personality. There is Mr. Black, the original altruist and vanguard of the people, who gradually is tranformed into a crazy, tyrannical despot as his power increases. Then there is Flash, a corrupt gangster-like politician currently in power, whose mere presence is a cause for alarm among the people. Finally there is the Tramp, a social dropout who acts as the detached narrator and is probably the character with whom Davies identifies most...
...bundle of neat, often amusing analogies. De Palma has something richer-and more relevant-in mind than parodying a theatrical property he knows is too old and, in its way, too good for mere camp treatment. He has borrowed the plot as a vehicle to satirize the whole corrupt, pretentious and self-important world of pop culture...