Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...films that record what went on in the beginning-if they are ever made-will be altogether different in look and tone from the existing trilogy, says Lucas. They will be more melodramatic, showing the political intrigue and Machiavellian plotting that led to the downfall of the once noble Republic. They will have only enough outward action to keep the plot moving. Obi-Wan Kenobi, the elderly Jedi who was played by Alec Guinness in the Star Wars series, and Darth Vader will be seen as younger men, while Luke Skywalker may make a brief appearance as a baby...
...arms. Holloway, like many American officials, seems undecided on how much of Soviet action derives from its stance as protector of the socialist faith and how much from its role as super-power. In the end, he attributes too much to Merlots-Leninist doctrine and not enough to sheer Machiavellian power...
...real beneficiary of this direct approach, of course, is Henry Woronicz as Mark Antony, whose orations over the dead Caesar--not just the famous "Friends, Romans, Countrymen," but the Machiavellian masterpieces that follow--provide a classic example of words that don't need stagecraft to make them work. True, the otherwise subtle lighting design turns a bit blatant for the great funeral speech, dropping to a single spotlight as soon as Antony begins to speak, spectators' yells coming out of the near-pitch dark. Even that tactic, though, carries a certain ingenuous charm; why shouldn't Woronicz and director Cameron...
Alton's Peron is a Machiavellian, if occasionally befuddled, politician. And R. Michael Baker's Che stands as a deserving counter-Force to Alstay's Evita. He's on stage almost throughout the show, jumping, running, kneeling--seldom content to stand silently as Evita becomes increasingly popular and disingenuous...
...neither man's endeavors and especially Frankfurter's more bold faced lobbying efforts so would have washed with national standards of judicial propriety in their era or ours. On a relative scale, though he makes it clear he sides more with the politically visionary Brandeis than with the more Machiavellian Frankfurter, whose political end was often the growth of his own influence, not the realization of a program like has mentor's populism and opposition to Big Government and Big Business...