Word: inspectors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kidnapings at over 250. Largely as a result, Buenos Aires now has 200 or so licensed protection agencies, although most of the business is done by a dozen top firms. One of the largest is Organization Seguridad Integral, S.A., run by Luis P. Occhiuzzi Agrelo, a retired commissary inspector of the federal police. O.S.I, can draw on a supply of 1,000 men, mostly former soldiers and police or moonlighting off-duty cops, for special missions. About 100 of them have been given special anti-kidnaping training...
...GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR by NIKOLAI GOGOL...
...fully developed bureaucracy is the most ludicrous form of tyranny. Petty, self-important and stupid men, who in themselves amount to nothing, become bloated with their functions and turn authority into farce. This is the central aspect of Gogol's 140-year-old surrealistic satire The Government Inspector...
...plot of The Government Inspector is deceptively simple. The mayor of a small Russian town-his name, Anton Antonovich Skuoznik Dmukhanovsky, is almost larger than his constituency-has received a letter indicating that the equivalent of an IRS investigator has been dispatched from the capital to examine the town's fiscal books. Since the mayor (George S. Irving) and his cronies are as crooked as counterfeit rubles, they are understandably distressed...
Local Suckers. Two of the mayor's more idiotic henchmen report they have discovered the government inspector, Ivan Alexandrovich Khlyestakov (Austin Pendleton), living incognito in a local hotel. This chap is actually an impecunious government clerk from St. Petersburg, but once he appears, sycophancy reigns supreme. Khlyestakov is a fop with the instincts of P.T. Barnum. He rooks the local suckers of all their ready cash, comes close to seducing the mayor's wife (Sloane Shelton) and daughter (Erin Ozker) and then blows town. Like the tolling of the bell of doom, a resplendent attaché arrives from...