Word: pols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GENOCIDAL CENTURY Then there was the dark side. Amid the glories of the century lurked some of history's worst horrors: Stalin's collectivization, Hitler's Holocaust, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's killing fields, Idi Amin's rampages. We try to personalize the blame, as if it were the fault of just a few madmen, but in fact it was whole societies, including advanced ones like Germany, that embraced or tolerated madness. What they had in common was that they sought totalitarian solutions rather than freedom. Theologians have to answer the question of why God allows evil. Rationalists...
...entire society rapidly and mercilessly; he created a regime that erased politics, erased historical memory, erased opposition. In his short career in power, from 1917 until his death in 1924, Lenin created a model not merely for his successor, Stalin, but for Mao, for Hitler, for Pol...
...immersion paid off. The atmospherics are right, down to the heraldic theme music, the swooping graphics and the story meetings ("Get me a show, people. Anything but same-sex marriage"). By keeping the pol-vs.-pol scenes brief, Markus has made the show specific enough to Nightline to satirize the genre but general enough to life to tap the comic angst of the human condition. Watch, and you'll see one from each of the major office types: the tightly coiled executive producer (played by Miguel Ferrer of Twin Peaks), who humors Freundlich with drunken promises of future anchordom written...
...shot. He makes few speeches, shuns TV, grants almost no interviews and never, ever discusses his friendship with Clinton--with anyone. That discretion magnifies his value because Jordan appears at Clinton's side at the direst of times. He was with Governor Clinton in 1980 after the young pol's bitter electoral defeat. He was with President Clinton on the night of Vincent Foster's suicide, the day of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's fatal plane crash, and the night consultant Dick Morris was thrown overboard at the 1996 Democratic National Convention because of a sex scandal. He knows...
...film, Henry Fonda plays a pol dogged by a handful of Clintonian traits: Intellect. Indecisiveness. And bushels of babes. But Tracy's ex-President Hockstader knew enough to ask him: "You didn't write them any letters...