Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been convicted in the Soviet press. Tass Commentator Yuri Kornilov, for instance, insists that he will be found guilty because he helped a foreign state (meaning the U.S.) in hostile activities against the Soviet Union. Moscow radio's foreign-language broadcasts have frequently cited "facts" to "demonstrate" his guilt...
...committee, whose members had received phone calls the day before from Vice President Walter Mondale and Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss urging Miller's confirmation. Illinois Democrat Adlai Stevenson III complained that the committee was asking Miller to prove his innocence rather than confronting him with evidence of guilt. Conservative Republican John Tower of Texas grumbled that "this type of inquiry is how we get our jollies in the Senate. It is easy harassment...
...players make uncommon impact, especially Andrew Duncan as a lecherous pressagent and Linda Miller as a divorcee who takes up with a 19-year-old lover. As the not wholly unsympathetic husband, Murphy pulls off a daring piece of acting-a faked yet affecting crying jag that accompanies his guilt-ridden confession of infidelity. Bates, of course, is the most appealing suitor that any woman, married or unmarried, could wish...
...generation, only Evelyn Waugh was more skillful at moving a narrative with brief, dramatic scenes. Yet Greene's contributions have had a wider influence. He administered to the spy thriller its most potent dose of modern disillusionment. As a Roman Catholic convert with an unblinking eye for guilt and evil, he gave the bulky 19th century Russian soul opera a fresh English tailoring. The trials of a "whisky priest" in The Power and the Glory are, perhaps, the prime example of such styling...
...Sometime during the early '50s, at the very moment of his triumph, he became addicted to drink and drugs. After a catastrophic Hollywood car crash in 1956, which left his face an awkward mask, his decline became a slide. Bosworth seems to pin much of the problem on guilt over his homosexuality - or bisexuality, as she maintains it was - but the evidence is totally unpersuasive. Good as her book is, it offers no real reason for Monty's down fall, which was as mysterious as his talent. In one of his last illnesses Clift was visited...