Word: corrupts
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...writer, Ferdinand, abruptly walks out on the life he has been leading, one where his friends speak in advertising slogans, and travels cross-country trying to write and live by the standards he considers important. But the girl with whom he has run away turns out to be corrupt, and finally his love for her destroys him. Ferdinand has journeyed from one trap to another, and the realization of this is deeply disturbing. "Pierrot Le Fou" is an extension of Godard's preoccupation with the importance of human values in a world of emotional and intellectual bankruptcy. Godard's pessimistic...
After the riot, Carmichael and company patrolled the city's Negro districts handing out leaflets denouncing "the bestiality of a racist mayor and his corrupt police department." Though Carmichael insisted that his agitators had not started the riot, police arrested him on charges of inciting a riot and disturbing the peace. The prophet of black power was jailed under $10,000 bond, awaiting a grand-jury investigation of the spark that became a bonfire which was not easily quenched. At week's end a Negro teen-ager was shot and killed and another was wounded, apparently...
...Aldridge, that the old sea dog is right. There is a great deal of top-level muckraking about the malevolent moral dwarfs who operate international finance-capitalism; it is possibly the least convincing stuff since Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd went crusading for a better world amid the corrupt chancelleries of Europe...
...medieval city-state choosing a doge. The modern version is the International Biennale of Art, which last week, in its 33rd session, pitted more than 270 artists from 37 nations in an ofttimes murky, sometimes catty battle for supremacy. Over the years, jurors have been called corrupt, the vernissage* week of hanging and judging has been sneered away as a mere carnival, and the prizes have been dismissed as being as meaningless as leather medals...
...Adhemar, now 65, flew off to European exile with his black-haired mistress in tow, many Brazilians felt a twinge of regret at seeing the magnificent old reprobate go. After all, in an era when corrupt politicians were almost admired, Adhemar had been the greatest rogue of them...