Word: files
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much money is involved that it seems to nourish corruption. There are adjusters who take bribes to settle cases, plaintiffs who file inflated claims, witnesses who remember the unrememberable, doctors who commit perjury, and lawyers who squander their talents working for contingent fees (30% of what they win for their clients), which now provide roughly one-third of the U.S. bar's total income...
...factions-but neither seems to know how to get anything done. Even the university, which Castro has always courted, has seen a rise in dissent. Last summer, 40 professors, students and minor party officials at the University of Havana were arrested for disagreeing with party policy. The rank-and-file Cubans are much subtler in their opposition. Some scribble graffiti on restroom walls ("Down With Russian Imperialism," "Fidel, Traitor"). Others indulge in a little spur-of-the-moment sabotage. Sailors or railroad men urinate in bulk sugar; a farmhand may toss a wrench into a sugar-cane harvester...
...whole bit, played their game perfectly, just what they wanted. At first when you're doing this, you feel that you're doing something good: striking a blow against the system. Hah, you're going to make them read your file, have a big argument, a showdown, and then you're going to pass out leaflets at your physical...
Harry Palmer, the bland antiheroic secret agent of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, the chap who hates his job and doesn't care what kind of dry vermouth they put in his martinis, is back with his spectacles and his non-U English accent in Billion Dollar Brain. So is Michael Caine to play him in yet another thriller by Novelist Len Deighton. But in this third outing the law of diminishing returns has begun catching up with the team...
...later shot where she appears in close-up on a street at the exact moment when two buses pass each other beats any singe shot in last year's Blow-Up. Billion Dollar Brain should be examined in some detail before lumping it with Furie's disconnected Ipcress File, Funeral in Berline, and all those derelict Bond films. See it twice...