Word: manchurian
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...group calling itself Friends United for Chinese Knicknacks and Against Detention of Ancient Manchurian Stuff took credit for stealing the gong—which, in the past, had been sounded when non-Adams House residents attempted to eat in the conveniently located dining hall...
...With Love (a widower moves his three daughters from Iowa to the Eternal City for a teaching position) and, as he was nearing 75, The Powers That Be, about an inept U.S. Senator whose wife (Holland Taylor) runs the show. Imagine the James Gregory-Angela Lansbury couple from The Manchurian Candidate, remove the sedition, add broad laughs, and you have this short-lived 1992 farrago, dreamed up by Marta Kaufman and David Crane just before they created Friends...
...Blair. Then again, they could be another political power couple, Bill and Hillary Clinton: the salesman and his less charismatic but brilliant wife. Is the woman betrayed by the man, or is she controlling him, or both? Could either a U.S. President or a U.K. Prime Minister be a Manchurian candidate, his policies programmed by an outside agency? That's enough conspiracies even for Polanski...