Word: opportunisme
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As an individual, Sloan's hero is a quietly brash, intellectually aloof fighter compulsively plotting the means to exploit the corruption and stupidity of the "midgets" he has been deployed to defend. For him, the war is no more than a hastily-built bureaucratic contraption within which the warrior must...
Just why Sirhan Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy may never be fully explained. But few have tried harder to solve the mystery than Journalist Robert Blair Kaiser. With an enterprise perhaps slightly contaminated by opportunism, Kaiser became an investigative member of Sirhan's legal-defense team only weeks after the...
Appointed to succeed the assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Goodell performed an ideological pirouette?from moderately conservative Congressman to flaming-liberal Senator. The maneuver won little critical acclaim, smacking too much of rank opportunism to appease his broadened constituency.
Professional Jealousy. Somewhere along the way, Frost's fury at rejections fanned out into a general, capricious malice and crass opportunism. Much of the book is devoted to an appalling accumulation of trivial plotting and backbiting. It was a shrewd Yankee who first told Frost that good fences make...
Most of the film has the quality of dislocation. It is lit like a Wyeth painting and informed with the lunatic logic of Magritte. Only twice does it grow didactic. In an Italian whorehouse, 19-year-old Nately (Art Garfunkel) confronts a 107-year-old pimp. The scene is photographed...