Word: fascists
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...it’s no surprise that “Charlie” made it off the ground. What the public received, instead of a triumphant return to form for a once interesting and offbeat commercial director, was a cultural product more neo-fascist in character than a cabinet meeting in the Bush administration. How a movie about an evil dictator who fires all his employees, leaving them impoverished, wretched, starving, and without dignity, only to be continually loved and revered by them, could captivate audiences in America, the land of the free, is beyond me. Surely public opinion polls...
...taken it upon himself to dramatize texts’ suggestions about the postmodern subject who has absorbed high and low—Vergil, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, comic books, and Fascist propaganda—all in one breath. The question is how much we can care about a protagonist who, in the course of 450 pages, does little but indulge in his ruminations...
...Ranting is your word. I would say this: I don?t call anybody a Nazi. I don?t call anybody a fascist. I don?t drop the F bomb on anybody. But I can give you a list as long as your arm of my friends on the left who do that all the time...
...notably in the section of Pentimento that was adapted as the movie Julia. Political enemies regarded her as an all but unrepentant Communist, although she denied having formally belonged to the party; to the end (she died in 1984), she prided herself on having been branded a "premature anti-Fascist" and sniped at those she felt had been faithless to the left's cause...
...less serious than our imprisoning people without trial, defense attorneys or any recourse to appealing their treatment in a fair court. Months ago, Americans knew of allegations that prisoners' Korans had been abused. What was done? Nothing. We are following a very dark precedent established by fascist dictatorships years...