Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chris looked at Jon with new respect...
Joan Crawford was never a widely beloved star, but like many of the women she played, she survived in a tough, male-dominated world. Over the years people came to respect her tenacity. Meeting her, they were always surprised to discover that she was smaller (5 ft. 3 in.) than she seemed onscreen. But the fire and discipline were always there, the source of her singularity...
...some hoodlums, the ultimate goal is to become a boss and enjoy "the feudal respect and tribute paid all dons by their soldiers. Says Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau: "Power is as important to these people as money...
However, the geographer's discipline and intellect turn out to mask a fanatic's zeal. He imposes an implacable martial law and calmly uses torture to recruit troops from the countryside. Even his eccentric respect for the humanity of the natives becomes a form of arrogance. He enjoys publicly parading his black consort in order to mortify the provincial gentilities of the merchants' wives. His ascendancy, far from a triumph of the humane or heroic, is a kind of parable of the tendency of a fearful populace to conspire in the rise of a dictator...
Olga and Masha urge Irina to accept a proposal of marriage from an oddly self-mocking anti-hero named Baron Tusenbach (Austin Pendleton). Though Irina does not love him, she does deeply respect him and reluctantly agrees. But Irina is besieged by another suitor, a man as menacing as a bayonet thrust, Staff Captain Solyony (Rene Au-berjonois), who is romantically desperate for her love. Solyony challenges the baron to a duel, and all dreams end with a pistol shot...