Word: godfatherhood
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Perhaps De Palma and Stone had aspirations of Godfatherhood: an operatic overview of the nation's immigrant black princes, a meticulous dissection of the relationship between crime and Big Business, a celebration of the American power ethic, a warning against corporal or corporate abuse. But Scarface lacks the generational sweep and moral ambiguity of the Corleone saga. At the end, Tony is as he was at the beginning: his development and degeneration are horrifyingly predictable; his death evokes not fear or pity, but numb relief...
...decided to do something about the "Braun Babies." Many of their parents, declared General Goring, must have seen by this time the errors of Marxism and become good Nazis. "Provided the parents' political attitude is not objectionable," he announced, "I am ready to take over the obligation of godfatherhood." Generous, this offer gave Braun Babies an inside track in the rush of hausfrauen who continue eager to get their offspring godfathered by Bachelor Hitler, Bachelor Roehm, Chief of Staff of the Storm Troops or other Nazi leaders who, in the main, show a taste for celibacy at surprising variance...
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