Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then? Well, it depends on what the reader has in mind. But to help him out, the author furnishes costumes and scenery for two of the era's pervasive daydreams. One is that of facing the Grand Inquisitor, having one's day in a hopelessly hostile court. The other is that of taking to the hills, a self-reliant survivor, after...
...landing, the four men were taken to a VIP villa. Scherrer and his deputy for ground forces, Brigadier General Claude M. McQuarrie Jr.both of whom are privy to U.S., NATO and Turkish military secretswere questioned for a total of about 20 hours. Scherrer's inquisitor was a KGB colonel sent from Moscow. "I had to tell him several times he was being disrespectful and trying to put words in my mouth," said the general...
...than compensates for her flaws in their sharp running dialogue. Bronson's U.S. films (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) have apparently typecast him as just another ugly face. Here he shows himself as perhaps the most underrated actor this side of Rod Taylor. He is the consummate inquisitor, and even as he slowly falls in love with Mellie, his thin smile retains an intriguing touch of blood-and-feathers sadism...